Irena Sendler's Efforts To Do Good In The Modern Day

While some chose to stand by and be spectators of the horrid events happening in the Holocaust, others decided to acknowledge the fact that innocent people were being murdered. Irena Sendler was a part of the numerous resistance efforts against the Nazis. Generally, resistance efforts consisted of hiding people in homes, putting up anti-Nazi propaganda, and so on. Irena Sendler stands out among the rest because of her willingness to help others, her endeavor to smuggle children into freedom, and her message that inspires others to do good in the modern day.

Irena Sendler, born on February 15, 1910 in Warsaw, was a social worker at Źegota. Sendler very much enjoyed her socialist father and was markedly impacted by his efforts as seen in the quote, “She was greatly …show more content…
The people of today cannot be subject to the same sort of indifference that happened in the past. The efforts should not be to pull people apart, they should be to bring people together. After all she has done, Sendler believed it was nothing, and that just proves how heroic she is. There needs to be people standing up for what’s right incessantly, there needs to be more Irena Sendler’s in the world. Irena Sendler didn’t have to help any of those people. She could have been like countless others and just witness these terrorizing events take place, but she didn’t and that’s the reason she stands out. She understood she had a duty to these people. She knew these children were in danger, and she risked her life for that reason, she refused to obey the laws for that reason. These prisoners had her best interest at heart and because Irena Sendler chose to rescue them, instead of being a bystander, makes her a true hero. Sendler deserves to be remembered as the indifference