Irena Sendler A Hero

A hero is someone who is willing to leave the safe position they are in, in order to help someone in danger. The Yad Vashem defined a hero as righteous, “[...] according to this people who not only helped the Jews, but were willing to leave their relatively safe positions as bystanders,” (Preamble; by Irena Steinfeldt). A hero was willing to share the fate of those whom they had saved. During the Holocaust, many Germans were given the opportunity to be heroes, but few took the risk. Three of these heroes were Jerzy Bielecki, Gino Bartali, and Irena Sendler. Jerzy Bielecki was one hero during the Holocaust. During the war Jerzy Bielecki was accused of being a resistance fighter, shortly after he was taken to a camp in April of 1940. When he was at the camp, he was working in the grain storage workhouse where he met Cyla. His friendship with Cyla soon turned into love. As time passed by he could no longer handle being in a …show more content…
Irena was a member of the Council for Aid to Jews. Sendler had many contacts in which she had used to place Jewish children in orphanages, on some occasions she would place children in old courthouses and churches. She gave food and sheltered many Jews. Irena would create fake IDs for the children with the identity of a polish child and would remove the yellow Stars of David from their clothes. While saving the Jewish population Sendler had gotten arrested and sentenced to death for aiding Jews but was released soon after. Even with the near death experience Irena continued to help the Jews that were being prosecuted. During the Holocaust Irena Sendler forged over 3,000 documents and saved about 2,500 children. Sendler did the best she could to reunite families (Life in A Jar: The Irena Sendler Project) She had a near death experience and still went out of her way to save the Jewish population. Sendler is another one of the Holocaust’s heroes because she did whatever it took to save Jewish