Irena Sedler by Olivia Rogers https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m en-us 2022-02-14 16:49:37 UTC 2022-02-18 16:44:36 UTC hello@padlet.com Irena was born to Dr. Stanislaw Krzyanowski was a physician and her mother was Janina. Her father died in February 1917 from typhus. After his death Jewish community leaders helped her mother pray. She was suspended from the University of Warsaw for three years. She was an only child. But she had two kids, a son and a daughter. Her daughter still lives in Poland and her son died in 1999. rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051257385 2022-02-16 16:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051257385 Because her great grandfather led a rebellion against the czars. Also inspired by for great grandfather and wanted to help with that work. rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051258803 2022-02-16 16:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051258803 In 1939, when the Germans invaded Warsaw, Irena began helping the Jew by offering them food and shelter. When the Warsaw Ghetto was erected in 1940 she could no longer help out the Jew. The Ghetto was the area size of New York's center park and 450,000 Jew live there. She started helping children without their families. She made over 3,000 fake documents before she joined Zegota and the children division. After the war she create a place where Jew without there families. She also founded nursing homes and helped the people in need after the war. she also joined Polish United Workers' Party in Poland. On May 12, 2008 in Warsaw, Poland at the age of 98 she die from having Pneumonia. rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051259480 2022-02-16 16:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051259480 She helped many kids get out of the Ghetto in many different ways. She saved 2,800 Jewish Children. She hid them in an ambulance. rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051269482 2022-02-16 16:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051269482 In october 1943 she was arrested by the Gestapo and got sentenced to death and on the day she would have been executed she escaped. But before she escaped she found the list of jewish people and hid it. She was also tortured brutally. rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051273766 2022-02-16 16:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051273766 I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.” - Irena Sendler rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051274549 2022-02-16 16:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2051274549 rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2053516241 2022-02-17 15:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2053516241 rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2053531543 2022-02-17 16:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2053531543 rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2055273917 2022-02-18 13:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2055273917 rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2055275540 2022-02-18 13:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2055275540 rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2055278770 2022-02-18 13:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2055278770 rogersolivia26 https://padlet.com/rogersolivia26/9lppabk1u8aoja1m/wish/2055308956 “Life in a Jar The Irena Sendler Project”,IrenaSedler.org, https://irenasendler.org/facts-about-irena/. , Accessed 16 February 2022.





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