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Once she had the children, she placed them with non-Jewish families until they could go back with their families when the war was over and Jews were no longer getting killed. To remember who the children were being placed with, Irena wrote their names and who they were placed with down and put the papers in glass jars and buried them.

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"Listen, we have to declare war on Hitler." -Irena Sendler

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The Story of Irena Sendler  (dir.  Andrzej Wolf)

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Overall, Irena ended up saving more than 2,500 Jewish children. She saved more Jews than any other person had during the Holocaust.

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Irena was supposed to be sentenced to death, but her "executer" helped her escape and fake her death. She then went on to live up until age 98.

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Once the Germans found out about Irena's actions, she was then arrested, questioned, tortured, and even had her legs and ankles get broken. But, through all of this, she never revealed anything about the group or children she had rescued.

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If the children pretended to be sick, Irena would legally be able to take them out of the ghettos because "she was apart of the Contagious Disease Department."

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In the "Zegota" group, she became apart of the "Contagious Disease Department" (She was able to do this because she was a social worker), she did this so that she could go into the ghettos and "inspect the children" (smuggle them out)

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She then joined a small underground group called the "Zegota" which helped smuggle children out of ghettos.

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Irena offered food and shelter to Jewish children up until the ghettos were created in 1940.

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In her University, she opposed the ¨ghetto-bench system¨(Jewish students were placed on the left side of lecture halls in seats designated for them only)from this, she got a 3 year suspension.

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Irena Sendler was born on February 15,1910 in Warsaw, Poland to a Polish family. When she was 7, her father died of a disease.

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¨Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth, not a title of my glory.¨
-Irena Sendler