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Warrensville SDA Church Children's Story 8/12/2017 Told by Mary Digel

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During this time period, she received gratitude from a multitude of people she had saved. In the mist of this, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She peacefully passed away on May 12, 2008.

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In 1943, she was captured by the Gestapo and was taken to prison where she was brutally tortured. She was sentenced to death. During the intervention from the Polish resistance, she was freed by a soldier.

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She saved over 2,500 children from certain death by smothering them out of the ghettos. She did this to prevent them from being deported to concentration camps.

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"You see a man drowning, you must try to save him even though you cannot swim."

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In 1939, when the Germans invaded Warsaw, Sendler began helping Jews by offering them food and shelter. After the Warsaw ghetto was founded in 1940, her mission to save lives was challenged drastically.

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She was born in Otwock, Poland on 15 February 1910 in Otwock, near Warsaw, to Stanisław Krzyżanowski and his wife Janina. She was the only child of her parents. Her father was a physician and also one of the first Polish Socialists.

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Irena Sendler (born as Irena Krzyżanowska) was a Polish social worker, humanitarian, and nurse. She is known for smothering Jewish children to protection from deportation under Nazi rule in Poland. She was also the head of Children's Division of Zegota, a Polish underground group to assist Jewish people.