Meet Irena Sendler – The Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children During WWII, Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, hiding them in suitcases, toolboxes, and ambulances. She kept their identities in jars buried under a tree, hoping to reunite them with their families after the war.
She and the people who worked with her are the types of people who actually manage to move my cold, cynical heart. Saving one child would have made her a hero, but saving around 2,500 is something I can’t even put into words.
The only thing I can think to say is that Irena Sendler was, and still is, the personification of human beauty.
On 18 October 1943, Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo. ransacked her house, Sendler tossed the lists of children to her friend Janina Grabowska, who hid the list in her loose clothing.
Should the stapo access this information, all children would be compromised, but Grabowska was never searched. **The Gestapo took Sendler to their headquarters and beat her brutally**. Despite, she refused to betray any of her comrades or the children they rescued. She was placed in the Pawiak prison, where she was subjected to further interrogations and beatings,from there on 13 November taken to another location, to be executed by firing squad.
According to biographer Anna Mieszkowska and Sendler, these events took place on 20 January. Her life was saved, however, because the German guards escorting her were bribed, and she was released on the way to the execution.
Source – [https://irenasendler.org/](https://irenasendler.org/)
Another source – [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler)
And the book – Life in a Jar
She has some very kind eyes. 🙂
Sendler‘s list
Fuck man where is her book and or movie. What a TRUE hero.
I want to remind everybody, that when people proposed Irena Sendler for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 the award went to Al Gore for his homevideo on climate change.
What a courageous woman
Saw the movie about her life with Anna paquin recently.
Fascinating movie and showed you the risks she took & how many children she saved too.
Definitely needs more recognition.
Bit offtopic, but something I’ve noticed is how long these heroes of WW2 lived. Many into their 90s and some 100s. It’s like they got such a karmic longevity boost from doing the right thing.
Irena Sendler died in 2008, at 98 years old.
imagine having to get bribed to NOT kill someone. we live in such an insane world where violence seems to be the answer to everything, up to and including violence. how does this make sense?
She knew she had to do something to help, and nothing and nobody was gonna stand in her way!
Heroes like Irena remind us that even in humanity’s darkest moments, there are lights that refuse to go out. What an incredible legacy.
https://www.yadvashem.org/he/righteous/stories/irena-sendler.html – link to a page dedicated to her story and to her heroism.
A woman who knew the value of humanity. Her actions were bravery on a whole other level.
She’s a hero. Who told her story? Whoever it was, I’m very glad they did. I’ll read the book and maybe finish mine one day.
There were many good people who did unimaginably courageous things during that war. The saviors like this woman, the resistance fighters, and the good neighbors.
My grandfather was a constable in a small Ukrainian town boidering Poland and Belarusand helped get every Jewish person there (about 100 of them) to safety.
Ironically, he was captured by the Germans, and my grandmother, mother, and aunt went to the camps. Long story short, they thought he was dead and he thought they were dead and they were reunited 18 years later in America.
A heroine
What a lovely human
Toolboxes? I know there are larger ones but all I can picture is the small one my dad has in the garage.
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This must be Sendler’s list that I heard so much about
You are beautiful Irene!
True beauty
Does she have a statue yet? If not, then why?
People like her deserve medals, NOT Tom Cruise
She makes me so proud! A true great woman!
That is one very satisfied looking face, and deservedly so.
r/orphancrushingmashine r/foundpoland
Fucking legend. Goals. Find me, kiddos. I love you.
One child is a victory.
Two children is unbelievably wonderful.
2,500 children is the protection of culture, identity and future for a civilisation.
She’s the hero I aspire to.
Saint Irena Sendler.
Thank you for sharing, it’s nice to see hero’s in this world.
Man I know nothing about her and I’m Jewish, would really like to read or watch something that tells her story
A true mensch.
Hero!
This literally made me cry.
A true saint.
How is the first time I hear about her?
What a woman. Wow
Why isn’t there a film made about her? What a woman 💖
Hero.
She saved a nation. Generations will continue to exist because of her.
She looks like a kind granny
A brave woman.