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Background Information

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 17:30:00 UTC

Irena Sendler was born in Warsaw in 1910. She went to the University of Warsaw. The Jewish community helped pay for her schooling. After her father past away trying to cure someone of typhus.Her parents were activists.

The Act of Resistance

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 17:37:32 UTC

She offered them food and shelter before the war. After the Warsaw ghetto was made she would help smuggle children out that were orphans at first. Irena and her helpers made over 3,000 fake documents to help Jewish families. She was a social worker how helped get 2,500 children out of the Warsaw ghetto.She kept an record of every child so that maybe one day they could find there real identity

The Impact

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 17:45:28 UTC

She smuggled many children out and that would help them to live on.She used an old court house as one of her ways to smuggle them out.They would also use ambulances and the sewers to get children out. She would put the children's names in jars and put them under the ground so that one day people would know about them.

Podcast

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 17:57:48 UTC

Sendler’s List: How One Polish Woman Saved 2,500 Jewish Children.

Quotes

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 18:06:10 UTC

“Fear makes you weak; anger makes you strong.”

“To save one Jewish child, ten Poles and two Jews had to risk death. To betray that same child and the family that hid him required only one informer or, worse still, one blackmailer.”

“We must never forget the past, so that history”

-by Irena Sendler

Website

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 18:09:33 UTC

More Info

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 18:15:09 UTC

There is now play about Irena Sendler and how she helped so many people. This play was at first a school project that a couple school girls did. Then they found and changed the play after meeting Irena Sendler. This is what sparked all the research about her.

Her Group

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 18:22:44 UTC

Irena worked with a group to get the children out of the ghetto. This group had 10 people in it. 9 girls and one boy who would smuggle kids out of the ghetto. They also made a list of how they rescued. In total they rescued 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto.

Irena Sendler with a Child She Saved

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 18:31:22 UTC

Some Children Irena Saved that Where Sent to a Convent

cl9559886 — 2024-04-18 18:32:57 UTC

Songs

cl9559886 — 2024-04-19 01:12:12 UTC

These are some song that I thought described Irena.

“Count on Me” by Bruno Mars

“Hold On, I’m Comin’” by Sam And Dave

“One Call Away” by Charlie Puth

“Lean on Me” by Bill Withers

“Where Is the Love?” by Black Eyed Peas

These are all songs that I thought that Irena would agree with and like. This is a like to were I got all the songs.

Her Survival

cl9559886 — 2024-04-19 17:29:36 UTC

The Germans can and knock on her door. Then they dragged her to prison. Then she was interrogated and tortured. For the names for the Zegot leaders.