Irena Sendler
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During the holocaust Irena Sandler helped save 2,500 kids from consitration camps. She wrote down every kids information before they were token away from the camps. she would put the information in jars and barrie them .
Irenas Youth
Irena Sandler was born on February 15, 1910 in Poland. she grew up in a city with a large Jewish population named Otwock. Her father was a doctor named DR. Stanisław Krzyżanowski and her mother is named Janina. Her father died in February 1917 from typhus contracted while treating patients whom his colleagues refused to treat in fear of contracting the disease, among them many Jews. This probily had the biggest impacked on Irena.
How She Saved The Kids
in 1942, the Nazis herded hundreds of thousands of Jews into a 16-block area that came to be known as the Warshaw Ghetto . The Ghetto was sealed and the Jewish families ended up behind its walls, only to await certain death.
Sendler was so appalled by the conditions that she joined Zegota, the Council for Aid to Jews, organized by the Polish underground resistance movement, as one of its first recruits and directed the efforts to rescue Jewish children.
To be able to enter the Ghetto legally, Irena managed to be issued a pass from Warsaws Epidemic Control Department and she visited the Ghetto daily, reestablished contacts and brought food, medicines and clothing. But 5,000 people were dying a month from starvation and disease in the Ghetto, and she decided to help the Jewish children to get out. she would put them in tool boxes, coffins, etc...