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    Gestapo, and Sendler spend the rest of the war in hiding. After the war, Sendler worked to reunite the children she saved with their relatives, but nearly all of them were by then orphans as their families had been killed. Only one percent of the Warsaw Ghetto survived the war. She was honored for her wartime work, when people called her, telling her, “I remember you. I remember your face, you took me out of the ghetto.” One of the children which Sendler saved said, “To me and many…

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    15,1910 in Otwock Warsaw. She was greatly influenced by her father who was one of the first polish socialists. Her father died February 1917 from typhus. After her father death, Jewish community leaders offered her mother help in paying for Irena education. Sendler studied polish literature at Warsaw University. She married Mieczyslaw sendler in 1931,but got a divorced after she married Stefan Zgrzembski, they had 3 kids and later got a divorced. On May 12,2008 Irena died at Warsaw poland at the…

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    until Irena went to college at Warsaw university. She was expelled because she stood up for her Jewish friends. She sat with them when the teacher told her not to. When the teacher told her to move her response was “today I am Jewish“ She was a nurse and loved helping people. Irena also worked as a social worker. She had gotten married twice, but divorced, both times. She's also had three kids. During ww2 in 1939 she would bring food to some Jewish people in Warsaw. That is when she became…

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    “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…

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    Internecine Wars

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    Five countries went into a room, only one came out victorious. Supposedly, impartial Britain suggested that the only way peace could be achieved was“ by balancing the relative strengths of the various attending nations and making major territorial adjustments( Encyclopedia), but Britain was wrong and in no means impartial. The only way peace would be found in Europe was if the leaders could “preserve it from two of its chronic problems: hegemonic adventures (so there would never again be a…

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    Summary Of The Book Thief

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    • The setting of the book took place in Warsaw, Poland, during World War 2. At the time, German soldiers, otherwise known as Jackboots, invaded Warsaw. Being who you were, meant the difference between life and death. The main character of the book is Misha. Before he met Uri, another character, he was called “Stopthief.” It wasn’t really his name but he assumed this because that’s what people called when he ran with loaves of bread. Misha had no family nor friends at the time. He had no place to…

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    128232: Life German leader, Adolph Hitler, conducted the largest genocide of the Jews, homosexuals, and anyone that did not have Aryan characteristics. Many people today study and observe the horrific events that took place throughout World War II. What many people do not consider is all of the survivors that lived through Hitler’s reign. Solomon Radasky once said, “When a person is in trouble he wants to live. He fights for his life…” (Radasky). All of the people that were imprisoned struggled…

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    Warsaw Ghetto Although fiction, Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed expertly depicts the horrors that occurred inside and explains the sad truth of the Warsaw ghetto, “Orphans by the thousands roamed the streets in their rags and boils, slumped in doorways, begging for food, clothing, anything. There was nothing to give them. So they starved and froze and died in the snow, their arms frozen outward, still begging. The children who lived were all scraps and eyes. This was the ghetto: where children grew…

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    conditions and everything Kulski experienced in Warsaw. In the diary format he lists his experiences as a child soldier in the polish army. Kulski’s father was acting as the mayor of Warsaw and there were many times where Kulski was concerned when they would take his father hostage. Kulski’s father played a big role in his life because he so desperately wanted to aid in the war. “I pointed out to father that boys my age disarmed Germans on the streets of Warsaw during the World War, but he is…

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    Warsaw Symbolism

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    Warsaw, A Symbol of Resistance and Courage “The horrors experienced by the Jews of Warsaw in their two years of confinement are almost too vile and inhuman to have been created by the hands of men.” (Finegersh 1) Although the odds were against them, the Jews of Warsaw took desperate measures to escape life in the ghetto. They started with unexpected resistance, which turned into an uprising; although they did not succeed, they will always be remembered as a symbol of resistance for fighting…

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