Irena Sendlerowa (de domo Krzyżanowska) was a Polish Catholic nurse who saved 2,500 Jewish children in the time of the Shoah (the Holocaust) in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Irena Sendler 1910-2008, a Righteous Among the Nations, saved 2,500 children in Warsaw. Irena Sendler was a nurse at a Catholic hospital when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. As a nurse she was able to enter the ghetto. Irena Sendler was smuggling children out of the Warsaw ghetto to Polish Christian families. To preserve the identity of the saved children she wrote down their true names and hidden the list in jars. The jars with 2,500 names were buried in a garden. Irena Sendler was arrested by Nazis in 1943. She was tortured but she has revealed no names.
IRENA SENDLEROWA: When I saw what's going on--I just decided to act.
Irena told guards a child has typhus and needs to be taken to hospital to prevent epidemics. Sometimes she cooperated with janitors of a courthouse that stood at the ghetto's border, so children could be led by janitors through long corridors towards freedom.
SHEVACH WEISS (former speaker of the Israeli Parliament): Now she went to God. And she will ask God--"God, where were you in the time of Holocaust?" And God will answer to her: "I was in your heart."
Irena Sendler has died peacefully on May 12th, 2008, in Warsaw, Poland.
I wish to thank you for taking the time to write and share this with us all here. I like reading and learning about peaceful loving people who's acts of kindness,love and seeing injustice & acting upon it with a loving caring heart. Irena Sendler's presence upon this planet will be missed by many,even by all who never knew her,about her- or of her bravery and kindness..as her story has touched me deeply so will live on her acts, heart of love and all lives she touched & saved.
With many blessings & Love,
Leah