Irena Sendler

During WWII (1939-1945), many non-Jewish people recognised the extent of anti-Semitic behaviour, and aimed to work against the Nazi Holocaust in German Occupied Europe. To begin, as described in Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, most non-Jewish people in occupied Europe did take part in the Nazi scheme (Yad Vashem, 2014). These bystanders did notice the severe discrimination of the Jewish people, however, they did not assist as they were too frightened to help, as even…

The factors that led some non-Jewish people to work against the Nazi Holocaust in German-occupied Europe were their beliefs/convictions, personal characteristics and simply for reason of humanity. Righteous Among the Nations is an honorific that describe non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. This is because, resisting the Nazi movement during World War 2 was deemed as a capital offense; accordingly, people who helped Jews would have been incarcerated in camps and…

How do you react when you believe authority is wrong? Do you believe it is inherently safe to differ from authority’s opinion? Do you hide what you think is right in fear of the consequences? Or do you except the drawbacks and do what is right regardless? According to the 17th century philosopher Voltaire, “it is dangerous to be right when established authorities are wrong”. Although this claim could be refuted by instances of respect for others honesty and courage, I believe people around the…

Similarly, Irena Sendler also helped numerous Jewish children while undergoing the pressure of being caught. According to irenasendler.org, she was a nurse which was told to find sick children in the Warsaw ghetto and remove them so other children would not catch their illnesses. She and her colleagues smuggled children out of the ghetto and put them in hiding. Irena even saved the names of the children in jars so there was a chance for the children to be reunited with their parents. “Irena and…

2009. Her hard work paid off when she got nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for a long haul in the film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) and Golden Globe Award for The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009). She got a chance to try a different genre and worked in a horror film Trick’r Treat as Laurie which released in…

orders of his superior, Ho, for humanitarian reasons, started to issue visas to Shanghai” (People who saved Jews). Ho saved a lot of people by trusting himself and not listening to his superior. Moreover, Irena Sendler was able to stand up for what she believed in. To show a reference, “[Irena Sendler] helped save 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them with false documents and sheltering them in individual and group children’s homes outside the ghetto”(People who saved…

own life to make others better. Even if these women had their own personal problems, they would put them aside to make others problems shrink. Many of these women have risked everything they had to help others. Mother Teresa, Dorothea Dix, and Irena Sendler are just a few examples of world changing women from our past. Mother Teresa is just one prime examples of women from our past that has impacted today’s generation. Mother Teresa was born on August 26 of 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia to an…

For example, when Irena Sendler, a Poland Jew helped get about 2500 children out of a walled in ghetto they were rounded up into by the Nazis during WWII. She was also to sneak food and medicine into the ghetto, leading to her getting tortured and her legs broken. Another example…

Isolated and fearing capture by the Nazis, 15-year-old girl, Anne Frank went in hiding for two years with a slim chance of survival. As a way of expressing her feelings, Anne wrote it all down inside her beloved diary. Before her capture in the hiding place, she wrote that “despite everything… people are really good at heart” (Frank 263). How could someone whose life had been turned upside down still say that there is goodness inside everyone? Anne’s words in her final journal entry illustrates…

January, 1933 to May, 1945; a calamitous and tragic time period where six million Jews were taken out of existence. No one could foresee that a demanding, judgmental, and controlling leader was going to take over the presidency of Germany and order for the torture, misery, and execution of a manifold of innocent people. Adolf Hitler, born in 1889, grew up in close proximity to the border of Germany and eventually led his way up the political chain and became chancellor in 1932. From being…