Irena Sendlerowa was a Polish nurse and social worker based in Warszawa . Throughout her life, she served in the Polish Underground State and worked in the Żegota, which was the codename for the Polska Rada Pomocy Żydom . ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
World War II broke out when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. This invasion led to Britain and France declared war on Germany in retaliation. Sided with Germany, the Soviet Union invaded and declared war on Poland on September 17, 1939.
The persecution of Jews did not begin during the Second World War, in fact, the oppression of the Jewish population of Germany began a few months after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30th 1933, …show more content…
By the 2nd August of 1934, Hitler has declared himself Führer und Reichskanzler . Hitler was murdering well before 1939, at first, it was those with disabilities, then homosexuals and gypsies, as they did not have a place in his plan for Germany. Yet those who were persecuted most of all, the Jews, were those who Hitler wanted annihilated. In the years approaching the beginning of World War II in 1939, Jewish people in Germany lost their rights, their land, their culture. They were not seen as German citizens from 1935 onwards, they could not own businesses, couldn’t hold a professional job i.e. doctors, teachers, accountants and children could not attend school. The night of the Kristallnacht is something one cannot forget. That night of 9th - 10th November 1938, was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland where “Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. Over 1,000 synagogues were burned and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged”. After the invasion of Poland, Jews in German-Poland were forced to wear an arm band or yellow star in
World War II broke out when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. This invasion led to Britain and France declared war on Germany in retaliation. Sided with Germany, the Soviet Union invaded and declared war on Poland on September 17, 1939.
The persecution of Jews did not begin during the Second World War, in fact, the oppression of the Jewish population of Germany began a few months after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30th 1933, …show more content…
By the 2nd August of 1934, Hitler has declared himself Führer und Reichskanzler . Hitler was murdering well before 1939, at first, it was those with disabilities, then homosexuals and gypsies, as they did not have a place in his plan for Germany. Yet those who were persecuted most of all, the Jews, were those who Hitler wanted annihilated. In the years approaching the beginning of World War II in 1939, Jewish people in Germany lost their rights, their land, their culture. They were not seen as German citizens from 1935 onwards, they could not own businesses, couldn’t hold a professional job i.e. doctors, teachers, accountants and children could not attend school. The night of the Kristallnacht is something one cannot forget. That night of 9th - 10th November 1938, was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland where “Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. Over 1,000 synagogues were burned and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged”. After the invasion of Poland, Jews in German-Poland were forced to wear an arm band or yellow star in