Irena Sendler Speech

When you meet a person, an actual person, not just another face that teachers drag through your school life to force the person`s history or ideas, the very first thing you learn about them is their name of that human being with a heartbeat and with feelings. So, I would like to introduce you to Irena Sendler, a Catholic, Polish woman, who turned away from her work as a social worker to help the Jewish community being forced into the ghettos by helping the ill. She realized that there is not a person on this earth that deserves to have their heartbeat be muted or their feelings be buried. This 4`11 woman was born in the heart of Poland in a little town that went by the name Otwock. This 99 year of town is were Irena spent many decades of her …show more content…
As a nurse in the ghettos, she had full access to all of the equipment that could smuggle children out of these camps and into the arms of safety. Sometimes, Irena hid children under the stretchers and floorboards of the ambulance to sneak the kids past the gate of these camps, which was the most difficult stage in freeing the kids. She would often squeeze the paw of a dog in order to make it bark, which would drown out the noises of the children, such as giggling and breathing. She set her plans around night that she know would be have a storm to drown out these noises even more. She even dared to smuggle out babies tucked into potato sacks, suitcases and toolboxes. With a riot in April of 1943, Irena and other volunteers still got the kids to the safe haven Since she knew most of the people that were part of her church, she would use the church to shelter the kids, until families would found for the kids to go live with, finishing her job of getting those kids out of the ghettos and into the hand of someone worthy of taking a …show more content…
This still holds true in the life of Irena Sendler. One day as she came home from working in the ghettos, German police raided her house to locate a list of the children that Irena had helped, in order to find and return the children to the ghettos. She threw the list out of the window to later be retrieved by a friend of Irena. After the entire search of the house was complete and the list was no found, she was taken to Pawiak Prison, due to the suspecting police believing that she was helping the Jewish children through her position at the ghetto`s hospital. She eventually escaped on an execution truck, the truck used to take prisoners to execution, and went to the same safe house that stored the escaped children. She did completely have her life away from searching cops until she got married to her first husband and changed her last name to Sendler, causing the stop to her position at the hospital and a stop to helping the