Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler was born February 15, 1910, and died May 12, 2008. She was a Catholic.

She worked as a social worker, humanitarian, nurse, manager, educator.

No information is given on its economic status.

When World War two broke out, Irena Sendler was a 29 year old social worker, employed by the Welfare Department . After the German occupation, the department continued to take care of the great number of poor in the city. Irena Sendler took advantage of her job in order to help the Jews, however this became practically impossible once the ghetto was sealed off in November 1940. Close to 400,000 people had been driven into the small area that had been allocated to the ghetto. The poor hygienic conditions in the crowded ghetto, the lack of food and medical supplies resulted in epidemics and high death rates. Irena Sendler, devised means to get into the ghetto and help the dying Jews. She managed to obtain a permit from the municipality. Once inside the ghetto, she established contact with activists of the Jewish welfare organization and began to help them. She helped smuggle Jews out of the ghetto to the Aryan side and helped set up hiding places for them.Irena Sandler escaped about 2,500 Jewish children from the ghetto.After she died, a tree was planted Yad Vashem in her honor.

Achievement-

In Poland the students visited Irena. National and international media covered their visit. That first visit took place in May 2001, and since then, Holocaust education in Poland has changed dramatically. The students have made five trips to Poland. Thanks in large part to their efforts to spread the word about Irena’s work, Irena was given numerous awards — including the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest honor.
In 2003 she won the Jan Karski, In 2007 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Bibliography

http://www.auschwitz.dk/Sendler.htm

https://www.biography.com/activist/irena-sendler

https://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/939081/jewish/Irena-Sendler.htm?gclid=CjwKCAiA98TxBRBtEiwAVRLqu8IEsbsJS3qT9foDhlUQnBu_OwAe_4D-M1DSElopZwYwpsjQcwbt3hoCO2wQAvD_BwE