Irena+Sendler

Irene Sendler Shannon M. CMS Irene Sendler was just an ordinary girl with well-taught moral values, but today she is an infamous rescuer in the Holocaust with her own play, Life in a Jar, that has been fashioned into a book and movie. She was a Polish woman who was born on February 15, 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, but grew up in Otwock, Poland. Her father, a physician, died when Irene was only seven years old from typhus he contracted from his patients, usually poor Jews, whom his co-workers were too scared to treat, for fear of contracting the disease themselves. ( [|__http://www.irenasendler.org/facts-about-irena/__] ) Her maiden name was Krzyzanowki, and her father, Stanislaw Krzyzanowki, taught her to respect others no matter what their ethnic beliefs, wealth, or social standing. After the death of her father, she returned to Warsaw and attended Warsaw University with financial help from Jewish community leaders, where she was kicked out because she refused to follow the Jewish segregation laws. ( [|__http://irenasendleressay.weebly.com/early-childhood.html__] ) Irene Sendler’s defiance in school was just the beginning of standing up for ethnic equality through her father’s wise advice. Sendler was a mere twenty-nine year old social worker when World War II broke out, but she was a hero to over 2,500 kids. ( [|__http://www.pbs.org/program/irena-sendler/__] ) Meanwhile, the Warsaw Ghetto was established as a certain death zone where about 400,000 Jews were herded into, including children. 5,000 people died per month there. ( [|__http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/sendler.asp__] ) However, even after it was sealed off, the brave social worker used her job to conduct sanitary inspections at the ghetto and joined Zegota, a council concerned with aid for jews. 44 and 5 She was concerned with the living conditions of Jews and believed, as her father taught her, all humans were created equal, no matter what ethnic background. Irena Sendler resisted the Holocaust by smuggling over 2,500 children out of the ghetto. They were sneaked out through ambulances, body bags, coffins, and potato sacks. ( [|__http://www.pbs.org/program/irena-sendler/__] ) Children were then given fake names, converted to Christianity, and placed in orphanages with forged papers. The only copy of their original name was written in code in one of the many jars of names buried beneath a neighbor’s towering apple tree. ( [|__http://www.auschwitz.dk/sendler.htm__] ) Irene Sendler was an interesting character to study. She was a symbol of equality and justice who disapproved of segregation. She stood up for what she believed was right, even if it meant getting expelled, or worse, executed. Her bravery and selflessness are what make her a true hero. I learned about self sacrifice from Irene. She sacrificed herself in the end for the children when she was tortured, but when she was to be executed her true friends from Zegota bribed a guard to halt the execution and let her escape. Irene Sendler was the jar keeper, the one who held and preserved the last piece of thousands of lives. [|__http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24574531/ns/world_news-europe/t/woman-who-saved-kids-holocaust-dies/#.VIZtCIsyvpU__] [|__http://www.dzieciholocaustu.org.pl/szab58.php?s=en_sendlerowa.php__]

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