Sendler, Irena

Sendler, Irena
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Irena Krzyzanowska 
      Polish social worker

born Feb. 15, 1910, Otwock, Russian Empire [now in Poland]

died May 12, 2008, Warsaw, Pol.
rescued some 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Trained as a social worker, Sendler became (1942) a member of Zegota (Council to Aid the Jews), the Polish underground organization established to help save Jews from the Nazi occupiers. She used such creative means as coffins and ambulances to remove children to safety, supplied them with fake birth certificates with Aryan names, placed them in sympathetic Christian orphanages and convents, and buried jars containing lists of their real names for future reference. Even when captured and tortured (1943) by the Nazis, Sendler refused to reveal with whom she worked and the names of those she saved. Although sentenced to death, she escaped when other Zegota members bribed Gestapo officers to free her. In 1965 Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, recognized Sendler as Righteous Among the Nations for her actions during the war. She was also awarded (2003) the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour. Works written about her include a one-act play entitled Life in a Jar (1999), written by four Kansas schoolgirls, and the biography Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Story of Irena Sendler (2004). In 2007 Sendler was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace.

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