Irena Sendler
Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer (1910-2008)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Pulled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during WWII as head of Żegota's children's section. Smuggled them into safe houses under an assumed name while the Nazis hunted her down.
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Irena Stanisława Sendler, operating under the nom de guerre Jolanta, was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews.
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