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While studying law and Polish studies at the University of Warsaw, Irena Sendler openly opposed the discrimination of Jews at Polish universities in the late 1930s. She stood up for colleagues attacked by nationalist military groups. She belonged to the leftist Union of Polish Democratic Youth.

"I was raised to believe that the question of religion, nation, belonging to any race is of no importance—it’s a human being that matters!" she wrote.

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Her actions during the war showed how she was brave, determined, and intelligent. She never gave up on anything. She found ways to solve problems such as finding multiple different ways to smuggle children.

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The Irena Sendler Project: Life in a Jar

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How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis - Iseult Gillespie

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"A person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality" - Irena Sendler

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After the war ended her first marriage ended in a divorce. In 1947 she married Stefan Zgrzembski, she had three children with him, a daughter Janka, and sons Andrzej (died as an infant) and Adam. After her husband died she remarried her first husband, Mieczyslaw Sendler, but they got another divorce.

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Born as Irena Kryzanoska on February 15, 1910, in Warsaw Poland. She was a Polish social worker who helped smuggle thousands of Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. She provided the children with new identities while carefully recording their original names so surviving relatives could find them. She was arrested and tortured by the Germans in 1943, she was rescued by Zegota before being executed. Before her death in 2008, she inspired the Life in a Jar project.

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Irena Sendler was born as Irena Krzyżanowska on 15 February 1910 in Warsaw to Dr. Stanisław Krzyżanowski, a physician, and his wife, Janina. Her father died in February 1917 from typhus contracted while treating patients whom his colleagues refused to treat in fear of contracting the disease, among them many Jews.

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She saved orphan children when the Warsaw Ghetto was formed. While also being in charge of the Children's Division of Zegota. She used an old courthouse to help smuggle children.