“The world can be better if there is love, tolerance and humility.” Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two. The Warsaw Ghetto, was a new “resettlement” for all Jews, from there, they were sent to concentration camps. Irena became a nurse and would smuggle the children out of the Ghetto using ambulances, potato sacks and more. However, she was caught by the Gestapo, German police, who then broke her limbs. She was sentenced to death but managed to escape. Irena Sendler and what she did was not recognized until 1999 by four high school students, in 2001, her story finally came to be known. She was given the Jan Karski award for Valor and Courage in 2003. Irena Sendler saved many lives and we owe her a great debt. In this essay, I would like us to honor and remember Irena Sendler, who died in 2008.
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Irena Sendler became committed to doing social justice because her father was a doctor and most of his patients were poor Jews. “ My parents taught me , that if a man is drowning. It is irrelevant what is his religion or nationality. One must help him.” Another reason she was committed to doing social justice was because she was appalled to see 500,000 people, including children, crammed into a 1.3 square mile space. After a while in the cramped space most people would either starve or die from disease. Sendler, also a health worker, seeing these people die of starvation and disease when she could help them, hurt her. In the span of two years, 83,000 children and adults died of disease and starvation. Sendler wasn't about to let any more children
Irena Sendler became committed to doing social justice because her father was a doctor and most of his patients were poor Jews. “ My parents taught me , that if a man is drowning. It is irrelevant what is his religion or nationality. One must help him.” Another reason she was committed to doing social justice was because she was appalled to see 500,000 people, including children, crammed into a 1.3 square mile space. After a while in the cramped space most people would either starve or die from disease. Sendler, also a health worker, seeing these people die of starvation and disease when she could help them, hurt her. In the span of two years, 83,000 children and adults died of disease and starvation. Sendler wasn't about to let any more children