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Irena Sendler on saving children
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"Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory." (Irena Sendler)
AUTHOR: Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska, also referred to
as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland, Nom de guerre Jolanta; 15
February 1910 – 12 May 2008) was a Polish nurse/social worker who served
in the Polish Underground during World War II, and as head of children's
section of Żegota, an underground resistance organization in German-occupied
Warsaw. Assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members, Sendler smuggled some
2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with
false identity documents and with housing outside the Ghetto, saving those
children during the Holocaust.
The Nazis eventually discovered her activities, tortured her, and
sentenced her to death, but she managed to evade execution and survive the war.
In 1965, Sendler was recognized by the State of Israel as Righteous among the Nations. Late in life she was awarded Poland's highest honor for her
wartime humanitarian efforts. She appears on a silver 2008 Polish commemorative
coin honoring some of the Polish
Righteous among the Nations.
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