The Nazis had forced more than 400,000 Jewish residents into a small locked ghetto area, where many would die every month from disease and starvation. In 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, and the Nazis began with murder and violence, Irena was a Senior Administrator in the Warsaw Social Welfare Department. Irena knew that this meant no good and she set out to help all those Jews. Irena first started by helping Jews with shelter and food. Since Sendler was a social worker, she was able to enter the ghetto regularly to help residents. As more and more Jews were forced into the ghetto area, she began to realize that it was too much, so she began to help the Jewish children. Irena Sendler and about two dozens of her colleagues set out to save
