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While in prison, in the midst of the prison’s hey bed,
she found a picture of Jesus,
known among the Catholic believers as an Image of a Divine Mercy,
with the words “Jesus, I trust in you” .
She kept this picture and cherished it for years,
later on sent it to the Polish Pope John Paul II
during His first historical visit to Poland.
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Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98
Irena Sendler-Sleeping With The Angels-Irena Sendler Symphony
Irena Sendler
Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98)
Warsaw, Poland
During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto,
as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.
She had an ulterior motive.
Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried.
She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.
Irena kept a dog in the back t
hat she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.
The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog
and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi's broke both of her legs
and arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out,
In a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard.
After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived
and tried to reunite the family.
Most had been gassed.
Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was not selected.
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
Later another politician,
Barack Obama, won for his work as a community organizer for ACORN.
In MEMORIAM - 65 YEARS LATER
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Irena Sandler In the Name of Their Mothers is the story of a group of young Polish women,
who outfoxed the Nazis during World War II and saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children.
Julien Bryan Collection, USHMM
A Polish mother and child in the aftermath of the bombing of Warsaw, 1939.
Julien Bryan Collection, USHMM
A Polish mother and child in the aftermath of the bombing of Warsaw, 1939.
Irena Sendler, a petite social worker, was not yet thirty years old
when Nazi tanks rolled into Warsaw in September of 1939.
When the city's Jews were imprisoned behind a ghetto wall without food or medicine,
she appealed to her closest friends and colleagues, mostly young women,
some barely out of their teens.
Together, they smuggled aid in and smuggled Jewish orphans out of the ghetto
by hiding infants on trams and garbage wagons
and leading older children out through secret passageways and the city’s sewers.
Catholic birth certificates and identity papers were forged
and signed by priests and high ranking officials in the Social Services Department
so that the children could be taken from safe houses in Warsaw
to orphanages and convents in the surrounding countryside.
The scheme was fraught with danger.
The city was crawling with ruthless blackmailers,
and the Gestapo were constantly on the look out for Jews
who had escaped from the ghetto.
"You are not Rachel but Roma. You are not Isaac but Jacek.
Repeat it ten times, a hundred, even a thousand times," says Irena,
who knew that any child on the street could be stopped and interrogated.
If he was unable to recite a Catholic prayer he could be killed.
Magda Rusinek tells us how she taught the children
"little prayers that every child knows in Polish.
I would wake them up during the night to say the prayer,"
says the Sendler collaborator who had joined the Polish Resistance as a teenager.
"And then I had to teach them how to behave in a church, a Christian Church."
"They treated me like their own child," says Poitr Zettinger,
recalling how the sisters would warn him when the Gestapo came to the convent.
"They would tell me when I should hide so I'd run up to the attic.
I'd hide in a cupboard there." William Donat, a New York businessman,
describes the conflicts inherent in the extraordinary situation.
"I was baptized and I was converted and,
became a very, very strong Catholic.
I was praying every day for perhaps a little more food
and for Jesus to forgive me for the terrible sin that I had been born a Jew."
Sendler and her cohorts kept meticulous records of the children's Jewish names
so that they could be reunited with their parents after the war.
Donat was one of the few whose parents survived.
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Irena Sendler at age 95 in Warsaw.
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In 1942, as conditions worsened
and thousands of Jews were rounded up daily
and sent to die at the Treblinka death camp,
less than hour outside Warsaw,
Sendler and her cohorts began to appeal to Jewish parents to let their children go.
Sixty years later, Irena still has nightmares about the encounters.
"Those scenes over whether to give a child away were heart-rending.
Sometimes, they wouldn't give me the child.
Their first question was,
'What guarantee is there that the child will live?'
I said, 'None. I don't even know if I will get out of the ghetto alive today."
Indeed, Sendler and her colleagues were taking an enormous risk
says Wladyslaw Bartoszewski of the Polish Resistance.
"No work, not printing underground papers, transporting weapons,
planning sabotage against the Germans, none of it was as dangerous as hiding a Jew.
You have a ticking time bomb in your home. If they find out, they will kill you,
your family and the person you are hiding.
" Magda Rusinek describes one harrowing escape with a small child.
"The street was blocked so I ran through gates I knew were still open with him under my arm.
And we just managed to get to the apartment when they blocked it.
So it was seconds. Absolute seconds."
Sendler describes, as though it were yesterday,
how the Gestapo came to her apartment on her Saint's Day,
October 20th, 1943.
Desperate to hide the list of hidden children and their Jewish names,
she looked out her window.
"There were two Germans walking around. Nine were coming up the stairs."
At the last moment, she tossed the list to a friend who hid it under her arm.
Irena was taken to the notorious Pawiak prison
where she was tortured for refusing to give up information about
her co-conspirators and their work.
She escaped as she was being led to her execution,
thanks to friends who had managed to bribe a guard at the last moment.
Irena and her colleagues continued their work.
With the help of the Polish Resistance and some 200 convents
and orphanages in the city of Warsaw and throughout the countryside,
they managed to save the lives of at least 2,500 Jewish children.
Suppressed during the Communist regime in post-war Poland,
and for decades afterwards,
Sendler's story finally comes to American audiences through interviews,
rare stock footage and evocative re-creations shot on locaton in Warsaw.
A few years shy of her hundredth birthday when interviewed by director Mary Skinner,
Sendler's lucid account of her life and work is a testament to the human capacity
for moral courage in the face of depravity and evil during history's darkest times.
Sendler’s list –
Catholic woman rescued 2,500 Jewish children
“Whoever saves a single life, it is as if he had saved the whole world.” (Talmud)
Today Irena Sendler (Sendlerowa) died. She was 98.
During the WWII she saved about 2,500 Jewish children
from Warsaw’s Ghetto. All of them survived the war.
She is recognized as “Righteous among the nations”
and was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 2007. Her story below.
She was raised in a family, where her father, a doctor,
was helping poor Jewish children in a town of Otwock, Poland.
In 1939, after the German invasion, Nazis forbid the offering of help to Jews,
but Irena decided otherwise and started to help those who needed it.
In Poland, the population of Polish Jews was estimated at about about
3,000 000 before the war. Warsaw was the largest Jewish city in Europe,
with 375,000 Jews. After forming Warsaw Ghetto,
non-Jewish Poles were forbidden to enter. In occupied Poland,
help offered to Jews in any form was punishable by death,
it was the most severe legislation in occupied Europe.
Nazis, being afraid of contagious diseases,
gave permits to some Poles to bring minimal medical resources.
Irena was a social medical worker and was granted such a permit.
That was the door of opportunity that Irena Sendler used to save the Jewish children,
who otherwise would end up starving to death, would be killed inside the Ghetto
or brought to concentration camps for extermination.
Zegota (Council for Aid to Jews)
During the beginnings of massive deportations from ghetto (1942),
Zofia Kossak, Polish writer, published a “Protest”
which influenced and united many Poles in the efforts of helping Jews.
Fragments of this document:
All perish. Poor and rich, old, women, men, youngsters,
infants, Catholics dying with the name of Jesus and Mary together with Jews.
Their only guilt is that they were born Jewish condemned to extermination by Hitler.
The world is looking at these atrocities,
the most horrible throughout the whole history of mankind, and is silent.
England is silent, so is America, even the international Jewry is silent,
usually so sensitive to all harm to their people. Silent are Poles.
We are required by God to protest. God who forbids us to kill.
We are required by our Christian consciousness.
Every human being has the right to be loved by his fellowmen.
Blood of the defenseless cries to heaven for revenge.
Those who oppose our protest – are not Catholics.
Children in Warsaw Ghetto
Within a few months, an underground Polish organization was formed,
called Zegota, which operated under the Polish Government in Exile.
Non-Jews and Jews cooperated together,
uniting people from many different political backgrounds.a
Polish government in England was trying desperately to send the news
toward the whole world about this situation, and hoping for financial support.
The results were not satisfying,
but they never stopped in sending funds to help Jews in hiding,
even if the sums were humble and not significant.
It is estimated that by the end of the war Zegota helped for
40,000 – 50,000 Jews (numbers vary, are hard to determined).
Watch 3 part documentary on
“Zegota saved 50,000 Jews from Holocaust”
with an extended interview with Irena Sendler:
Irena was directing Children’s Bureau of Zegota,
which was responsible for rescuing Jewish children,
placing them in safety and caring for them continually.
Irena was the planning strategist behind the action.
To get one child saved, about ten people were needed,
she estimated. People who helped were risking their own and their family lives.
Her nickname was “Jolanta”.
No one refused
Newborns and toddlers were smuggled sedated,
put in the wooden fruit crates, potato sacks, even coffins,
often delivered to the tram driver,
who drove the vehicle through the Ghetto to the Polish side of Warsaw
or just carried away through the gate.
As unimaginable as it sounds, kids who were 5-6 years old,
were putting their bare feet into the shoes of the factory workers
and covered with their long coats, marched together,
hidden from the factory to the Aryan side.
Kids were smuggled through cellars and sewage canals.
Saved children’s documents were falsified of course.
Irena was thinking how and where to keep all of the real names of the children,
in order to find their families after the war and return them, if possible.
She wrote the names of the children on small scraps of papers
and was hiding them in glass jars.
She kept those jars under an apple tree in a neighbour’s house
across the street. She practised throwing the jars outside her window,
in case of Gestapo invading her apartment. one day, she heard banging on the door.
Frantically she wanted to throw the jar with the names outside,
but the whole house was surrounded by the Gestapo.
She gave the jar to her visiting friend, who hid it in her underwear.
Warsaw, Ghetto deportation
She was arrested by Gestapo in October 1943,
put to the harshest prison, Pawiak and tortured.
She couldn’t be broken, and did not reveal any names of people
involved in rescuing Jews or any Jewish children’s name in hiding.
Her legs and feet were fractured during interrogations.
While in prison, in the midst of the prison’s hey bed,
she found a picture of Jesus,
known among the Catholic believers as an Image of a Divine Mercy,
with the words “Jesus, I trust in you” .
She kept this picture and cherished it for years,
later on sent it to the Polish Pope John Paul II
during His first historical visit to Poland.
Finally she was sentenced for death. on the day of her execution,
she was led by a prison guard to the execution square,
and unexpectedly released to a crowded street behind the heavy gate.
Zegota paid the guard huge bribe to let her go.
Her name figured on a list of people killed,
she read the announcement herself.
Later on, Germans discovered that she was not killed
and were pursuing her to the end of the war. She had to live in hiding.
According to Irena,
The greatest heroes of these rescue missions were not the rescuers,
but the mothers of the children,
who intuitively sensed the end of their lives approaching
and knew that was the only way for their beloveds to be saved
from the horror of extermination.
She always wanted to write a story about the Jewish mothers,
who had to make such a tragic decision,
entrusting their kids in the hands of people
whom they would probably never meet. Mothers would ask,
what guarantee they had for their children survival.
The answer Irena provided was as frightening as the whole world around them:
zero guarantee. She couldnt even promise safe smuggling behind the walls of Ghetto.
She personally had oversee about 10 apartments where Jews were hidden.
Most of the children were sent to the Catholic convents and orphanages. She said:
“No one has ever refused to take and save a Jewish child from me”
Sometimes they had to change childrens housing.
On one occasion she was asked by a small boy:
“How many mothers can a child have? This one will be my third one”.
After the war, she recovered the jars with the children’s names
and found every child.
Most of the parents of the children rescued by Irena died in Treblinka camp.
From an interview in U.S. New
Published: May 13, 2008
Irena Sendler, a Roman Catholic who created a network of rescuers in Poland
who smuggled about 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto
in World War II, some of them in coffins, died Monday in Warsaw. She was 98.
The death was confirmed by Stanlee Stahl,
executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous,
an organization that supports rescuers of Holocaust victims.
Mrs. Sendler was head of the children’s bureau of Zegota,
an underground organization set up to save Jews
after the Nazis invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939.
Soon after the invasion, approximately 450,000 Jews,
about 30 percent of Warsaw’s population,
were crammed into a tiny section of the city
and barricaded behind seven-foot-high walls.
On April 19, 1943, the Nazis began what they expected
would be a rapid liquidation of the ghetto.
It took them more than a month to quell the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
By then, only about 55,000 Jews were still alive;
most of them were sent to death camps.
Also by then, however, Mrs. Sendler’s group of about 30 volunteers,
mostly women, had managed to slip hundreds of infants,
young children and teenagers to safety.
“She was the inspiration and the prime mover for the whole network
that saved those 2,500 Jewish children,
” Debórah Dwork, the Rose professor of Holocaust history
at Clark University in Massachusetts, said Monday.
Professor Dwork, the author of “Children With a Star” (Yale University Press, 1991),
said about 400 children had been directly smuggled out by Mrs. Sendler.
Elzbieta Ficowska, a baby in 1942, was one of them.
“Mrs. Sendler saved not only us, but also our children and grandchildren
and the generations to come,” Ms. Ficowska told The Associated Press last year.
There were several ruses by which the children were saved.
Mrs. Sendler was a social worker for the city,
with a pass that allowed her to enter the ghetto.
“The Jews were all disease carriers, as far as the Nazis were concerned,
” Professor Dwork said. “They put up quarantine signs throughout the ghetto.
” Forgeries of the government pass allowed other members of Zegota
to enter the ghetto as well.
They went in day after day to persuade
Jewish parents to let them rescue children.
The most common escape route, Professor Dwork said,
was through the Warsaw Municipal Law Courts, which abutted the ghetto.
“There were underground corridors that had entrances on the ghetto side,” she said.
“The Polish police were bribed to allow the traffic.
Parents were told to dress the children as well as possible,
certainly without wearing a star.”
For a time, the ghetto’s boundaries extended to the Jewish cemetery.
“Some children were placed in coffins, their mouths taped,
or they were sedated so they wouldn’t cry,
” said Ms. Stahl, of the Jewish foundation.
“Other children were smuggled out in potato sacks.”
Sometimes an ambulance wagon, with a driver accompanied by a dog,
took children through the gates. “Children were under the floorboard,” Ms. Stahl said.
“The barking dog would drown out a child’s cries.”
A church straddled the ghetto border.
“Children would be taken into the church, go into the confessional,
and come out with papers as a little Catholic,” Ms. Stahl said.
They would be taken to a Christian home, a convent or an orphanage.
In a letter last year to the Polish Senate after her country finally honored her efforts,
Mrs. Sendler wrote, “Every child saved with my help
and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers,
who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth,
and not a title to glory.”
In 1965, Mrs. Sendler became one of the first of the so-called righteous gentiles honored
by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.
Poland’s Communist leaders did not allow her to travel to Israel;
she was presented the award in 1983.
Irena Krzyzanowska was born in Otwock, in what is now Poland, on Feb. 15, 1910.
Her father was a physician.
Her marriage to Mieczyslaw Sendler ended in divorce after World War II.
Her second husband, Stefan Zgrzembski, died before her.
She is survived by her daughter, Janka, and a granddaughter.
Mrs. Sendler once told Ms. Stahl that she wanted to write a book about
the bravery of Jewish mothers.
“She said,” Ms. Stahl recalled,
“ ‘Here I am, a stranger, asking them to place their child in my care.
They ask if I can guarantee their safety.
I have to answer no. Sometimes they would give me their child.
Other times they would say come back. I would come back a few days later
and the family had already been deported.’ ”
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The courageous heart of irena sendler-shine the light .
