When Germany invaded the country in 1939, Irena was a nurse in the Social Welfare Department in Warsaw which ran community kitchens in the city.
In 1942 the Nazis established a ghetto in Warsaw and Irena horrified by the conditions in which they lived there joined the Council for Aid to Jews. IDs managed health office, one of whose tasks was to fight infectious diseases. As the invading Germans were afraid the outburst of an epidemic of typhus, tolerated the Poles controlled the premises.
soon got in touch with families who offered to take their children out of the Ghetto. But they could not guarantee success. It was a horrible time, should convince parents that he hand over their children and they asked: "Can you promise me that my child will live?" ... ... What could promise when or even knew if he could leave the ghetto? ...
The only certainty was that children would die if they stayed in it.
mothers and grandmothers did not want to give up their children and grandchildren. Irena understood them perfectly, then, she was the mother, and the whole process that she conducted with children, the hardest was the time of separation. Sometimes, when Irena and her girls were returning to visit families to try to make them change their minds, were that all had been taken to the train that would lead to the death camps. Every time something happened to him, he fought harder to save more children.
ambulances began to remove them as victims of typhus, but soon took advantage of everything in his power to hide them and get them out, garbage cans, toolboxes, shipments of goods, sacks of potatoes, coffins ... in their hands any element is transformed into an escape. Able to recruit at least one person from each of the ten centers of the Department of Social Welfare.
With your help, prepared hundreds of false documents with forged signatures giving identities temporary Jewish children. Irena lived times of war thinking in times of peace. So was not enough to keep these children alive. I wanted one day to recover their real names, their identity, their personal histories, their families.
then devised a file in which he recorded the names of the children and their new identities. Pointed data in small pieces of paper and buried them in jars dontro preserved under an apple tree in the garden of his neighbor. They waited without anyone suspecting the past 2,500 children ... until the Nazis left.
But one day, the Nazis learned of their activities. On October 20, 1943, Irena Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to prison where he was brutally tortured Pawiak. In a straw mattress in his cell, he found a faded picture of Jesus Christ. The retained as the result of a miraculous chance during those difficult moments of his life, until 1979, when he got rid of it and gave it to John Paul II.
Irena was the only one who knew the names and addresses of the families sheltering the Jewish children, endured torture and refused to betray his associates or any of the hidden children. Broke her feet and legs as well as countless torture. But no one could break his will. So was sentenced to death. A sentence that was never fulfilled because I walk in the place of execution, the soldier who had let it escape. The resistance had bribed because they did not want Irena died with the secret of the location of children. Officially included in the lists of those executed, and that thereafter, Irena continued to work but with a false identity.
After the war, she dug up the jars and used the notes to find the 2,500 children placed with foster families. The meeting with relatives scattered across Europe, but most had lost family members in Nazi concentration camps. The children only knew by its code name Jolanta. But years later when his story appeared in a newspaper accompanied by photos of him at the time, several people began to call to say it: "I remember your face .... I am one of those kids, I owe you my life, my future and I want to see ... .
Irena Sendler took years chained to a wheelchair due to injuries after dragged by the Gestapo torture. It was not considered a heroine. Never claimed credit for her actions. "I could have done more," said whenever asked about the issue. "This regret will follow me until the day I die."
"No food seeds are planted. Planted seeds of goodness. Try to make a circle of goodness, the surround and they will grow more and more. " Irena Sendler
In 1942 the Nazis established a ghetto in Warsaw and Irena horrified by the conditions in which they lived there joined the Council for Aid to Jews. IDs managed health office, one of whose tasks was to fight infectious diseases. As the invading Germans were afraid the outburst of an epidemic of typhus, tolerated the Poles controlled the premises.
soon got in touch with families who offered to take their children out of the Ghetto. But they could not guarantee success. It was a horrible time, should convince parents that he hand over their children and they asked: "Can you promise me that my child will live?" ... ... What could promise when or even knew if he could leave the ghetto? ...
The only certainty was that children would die if they stayed in it.
mothers and grandmothers did not want to give up their children and grandchildren. Irena understood them perfectly, then, she was the mother, and the whole process that she conducted with children, the hardest was the time of separation. Sometimes, when Irena and her girls were returning to visit families to try to make them change their minds, were that all had been taken to the train that would lead to the death camps. Every time something happened to him, he fought harder to save more children.
ambulances began to remove them as victims of typhus, but soon took advantage of everything in his power to hide them and get them out, garbage cans, toolboxes, shipments of goods, sacks of potatoes, coffins ... in their hands any element is transformed into an escape. Able to recruit at least one person from each of the ten centers of the Department of Social Welfare.
With your help, prepared hundreds of false documents with forged signatures giving identities temporary Jewish children. Irena lived times of war thinking in times of peace. So was not enough to keep these children alive. I wanted one day to recover their real names, their identity, their personal histories, their families.
then devised a file in which he recorded the names of the children and their new identities. Pointed data in small pieces of paper and buried them in jars dontro preserved under an apple tree in the garden of his neighbor. They waited without anyone suspecting the past 2,500 children ... until the Nazis left.
But one day, the Nazis learned of their activities. On October 20, 1943, Irena Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to prison where he was brutally tortured Pawiak. In a straw mattress in his cell, he found a faded picture of Jesus Christ. The retained as the result of a miraculous chance during those difficult moments of his life, until 1979, when he got rid of it and gave it to John Paul II.
Irena was the only one who knew the names and addresses of the families sheltering the Jewish children, endured torture and refused to betray his associates or any of the hidden children. Broke her feet and legs as well as countless torture. But no one could break his will. So was sentenced to death. A sentence that was never fulfilled because I walk in the place of execution, the soldier who had let it escape. The resistance had bribed because they did not want Irena died with the secret of the location of children. Officially included in the lists of those executed, and that thereafter, Irena continued to work but with a false identity.
After the war, she dug up the jars and used the notes to find the 2,500 children placed with foster families. The meeting with relatives scattered across Europe, but most had lost family members in Nazi concentration camps. The children only knew by its code name Jolanta. But years later when his story appeared in a newspaper accompanied by photos of him at the time, several people began to call to say it: "I remember your face .... I am one of those kids, I owe you my life, my future and I want to see ... .
Irena Sendler took years chained to a wheelchair due to injuries after dragged by the Gestapo torture. It was not considered a heroine. Never claimed credit for her actions. "I could have done more," said whenever asked about the issue. "This regret will follow me until the day I die."
"No food seeds are planted. Planted seeds of goodness. Try to make a circle of goodness, the surround and they will grow more and more. " Irena Sendler
Polish Heroine Irena Sendler, who risked his life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to death to save 2,500 Jewish children, died on May 13, 2008 at 98 years reported family.
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