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The poor hygienic conditions in the crowded ghetto, the lack of food and medical supplies resulted in epidemics and high death rates. Irena Sendler, at great personal danger, devised means to get into the ghetto and help the dying Jews.
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the passing of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As head of the children’s section of Żegota, the Polish underground Council for Aid to Jews, Irena (“Jolonta ...
Irena Sendler. (1910 - 2008) When Hitler and his Nazis built the Warsaw Ghetto and herded 500,000 Polish Jews behind its walls to await liquidation, Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
In the fall of 1943, Irena was appointed head of Żegota’s children's section. Only a few days later, she was arrested by the Gestapo (German secret state police). The Gestapo brutally beat and tortured her. Nonetheless, Irena never revealed the names of the children or her colleagues.
On 19 October 1965, Yad Vashem recognized Irena Sendler as Righteous Among the Nations. The tree planted in her honor stands at the entrance to the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations. Irena Sendler died on 12 May 2008. Irena Sendler's daughter, Janina, visited Yad Vashem in 2010.
Irena Sendler (1910-2008) was a Polish social worker who helped Jews in Warsaw throughout the German occupation. She became a leading activist in Zegota after it was established in autumn 1942. From 1943, as head of the Children’s Section, she used her contacts with orphanages and other institutions to find hiding places for children.
There are some of the over 100 primary interviews about Irena Sendler. This photos and others from the 2002 trip were taken by Margaret Marczewski, Cornell grad who lives in Warsaw and helps with translation. We constantly place updated photographs of Irena on our web site. A photo of Irena Sendler. This photo was taken in 2007.
