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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. As a health worker, she sneaked the children out between 1942 and 1943 to safe hiding places and found non-Jewish ...
Donate Now. Protestant kids from rural Kansas, discovered a Polish Catholic woman who saved Jewish children. Irena Sendler and these students chose to repair the world. This web site shares the legacy and life of Irena Sendler, plus her 'discovery' for the world.
May 18, 2008 · Irena Sendler, who died last week in Poland, was a Polish Catholic social worker who smuggled those kids out of the Warsaw ghetto.
When World War II broke out, Irena Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker, employed by the Welfare Department of the Warsaw municipality. After the German occupation, the department continued to take care of the great number of poor and dispossessed people in the city.
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.
Born on February 15, 1910, in Warsaw, Sendler grew up both there and in a small town called Otwock, about 25 miles southeast of the city. During her childhood, Poland belonged to imperial Russia, and her family were practicing Roman Catholics, the predominant religion in the area along with the Jewish faith.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum mourns the passing of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped smuggle more than 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust.
