"I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone."

“Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”

“Irena Sendler at yadvashem.org”

“I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death.”

“Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.”

“Irena Sendler at holocaustforgotten.com”

“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.”