Irena Sendler

IRENA’S JARS OF SECRETS Irena’s Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan tells the true story of a Polish social worker, Irena Sendler. She was raised to value the importance of helping others who needed assistance, and she saw a need in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As a social worker, she was allowed access into the ghetto, and she was able to come up with clever ways to smuggle children out before they were sent to a death camp. She hid children under stretchers and floorboards in an…

“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.” These words were once said by Irena Sendler (IZ Quotes). Irena Sendler was an important member at the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Growing up, she was taught to help people, no matter their religion or nationality. Irena led a secret operation that saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. She accomplished this by smuggling them out of the ghetto (Pinterest). If…

cruelty towards the Jews shook her into taking immediate action. She consistently visited the Ghetto to provide the prisoners with medicine, food and clothing. However, despite her efforts approximately 5,000 Jews still died with each passing month. Irena Sendler then decided that she had to get the children out to safety and provide them with a new life. With the help of her associates from the Social Welfare Department, she forged hundreds of documents to supply the children with new…

taken away from them, they stayed positive and used their misfortune for a greater reason, which I think is truly amazing. It takes someone of great character and kindness to be nonconforming and stay true to their own hearts. With the help of Irena Sendler, Feliks Cywiński, and many others…

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…

were death penalties on Poles who were to help aid Jews. Zegota successfully put thousands of Jewish children in safe houses, orphanages, and convents. One main activist was Irena Sendler, who was a young social worker who was at great personal danger, devised means to enter the ghetto to help the sick and dying Jews. Irena helped make 3,000 fake papers to help the Jewish families before she even joined the Zegota group. She was also a German resistor. Life in a jar Getting caught was another…

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…