# Irena Sendler

> She smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto in toolboxes, ambulances, and body bags - then buried their real names in jars under an apple tree so they might someday find their families again.

*Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer (1910-2008)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/irena-sendler

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Educator
- **Category:** Educators
- **Country:** Poland
- **Born:** 1910-02-15
- **Died:** 2008-05-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Irena Sendler spent the 1930s as a social worker connected to the Free Polish University, then joined Warsaw's Department of Social Welfare in 1935. When the Germans sealed the ghetto, she and a network of mostly women used their access to move children past the walls with forged papers and placed them in Polish homes, orphanages, and convents. The Gestapo arrested her in October 1943. She hid the list of names and locations before they came, endured torture, revealed nothing, and was sentenced to death - then walked free the day of her execution after Żegota bribed her guards. She kept working in social services through Poland's communist decades. Israel named her Righteous Among the Nations in 1965; Poland gave her the Order of the White Eagle near the end of her life.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 58.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.1 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.2 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3882356/ (@nm3882356)

## Topics
#Activists, #Activist, #Activism, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2010** - Jan Karski Courage to Care Award
- **2008** - Died
- **2007** - Honorary Citizen of Tarczyn
- **2007** - Honorary Citizen of Warsaw
- **2007** - Order of the Smile
- **2001** - Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- **1996** - Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- **1991** - Honorary Citizen of Israel
- **1965** - Righteous Among the Nations
- **1910** - Born

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