Irena Sendler
Irena Stanisława Sendler, operating under the nom de guerre Jolanta, was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews.
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Background
- Born in
- Warsaw
- Educated at
- University of Warsaw
- Awards
- 🏆 Order of the Smile🏆 Order of the White Eagle🏆 Righteous Among the Nations🏆 Cross of Merit🏆 Order Ecce Homo
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory."
"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."
"I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death."
"I'm no hero, says woman who saved 2,500 ghetto children" in Guardian Online"
"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 tha…"
"I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality."
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1910
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Died
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