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There is in this story of the Polish social worker who -- with a band of like-minded compatriots -- set about saving as many Jews as she could.

This basic thirty-two-page biography opens with Irena Sendler's early morning arrest by the Gestapo in An entire chapter is dedicated to Sendler's.

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Irena Sendler

(1910-2008)

Who Was Irena Sendler?

When the Nazis invaded in 1939, Irena Sendler was a social worker and so had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, where hundreds of thousands of Jews were imprisoned.

As a member of Żegota (aka Konrad Żegota Committee, the Council to Aid Jews), she helped rescue 2,500 Jewish children from the ghetto. For her courageous actions during the Holocaust, in 1965, Israel’s Yad Vashem honored her as “Righteous Among the Nations.” Sendler died in Warsaw in 2008.

Early Life

Sendler was born Irena Krzyżanowska on February 15, 1910, in Otwock, Poland.

Her parents were members of the Polish Socialist Party, and her father, Stanisław Krzyżanowski was a medical doctor who died of typhus when Sendler was a child. In 1931 Sendler married Mieczysław Sendler, and the couple moved to Warsaw before the outbreak of World War II.

Warsaw Ghetto

In Warsaw, Sendler became a social worker, overseeing the city’s “canteens,” which provided assistance to peopl