Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer (1910-2008)
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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.
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 workin…
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Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.
I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people.
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true.
I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death.
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