Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse, humanitarian, and social worker who served in the Polish Underground during World War II in Warsaw.
The German had already taken over Warsaw at the time. Irena was the head of the children's section of Zegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews which was active from 1942 to 1945. Assisted by some two dozen other Zegota members, Sendler smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter with adoptive Polish families, in orphanages or other care facilities. Saving those children from the Holocaust. With the exception of diplomats who issued visas to help Jews run away from Europe, which was occupied by The Nazis, Sendler and her group
The German had already taken over Warsaw at the time. Irena was the head of the children's section of Zegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews which was active from 1942 to 1945. Assisted by some two dozen other Zegota members, Sendler smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter with adoptive Polish families, in orphanages or other care facilities. Saving those children from the Holocaust. With the exception of diplomats who issued visas to help Jews run away from Europe, which was occupied by The Nazis, Sendler and her group