Information about Irena Sendler: She was born in 1910 in the Polish Autobots to a Catholic family and works as a social worker and she earns money as an average person and her city was occupied by the Germans and she died in 2008 when she was 98 years old.
Achievements: Irena joined the Zagota organization, run by the Polish government in exile in London with the help of. The Jewish aliases in the Polish underground and its main occupation there was to save Jewish children. She risked her life in rescue . she was forging documents that gave Jews Christian names and obtained sick certificates, intended to deter the Nazis from spreading infectious diseases.
Later, she began smuggling children from the ghetto to monasteries or to Christian families, using forged papers they arranged underground. Irena kept a precise record of the children fleeing the ghetto, so that they could be located at the end of the war and returned to their families. The notes were buried in glass in the ground in her home garden. In all, this way saved about 2,500 Jewish children.In October 1943, the Gestapo banned her and tortured her to give the names of the children she rescued, but it was not broken. She was sentenced to death, along with another 39 prisoners, but was rescued with the help of a guard, who received bribes from her underground friends. She was then put on a list of already executed prisoners and lived underground.
Published: Jan 29, 2020
Latest Revision: Jan 29, 2020
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