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Wikipedia | Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler (née Krzy?anowska, in Poland commonly referred to as Irena Sendlerowa, 15 February 1910 ? 12 May 2008)Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the ?egota resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. Assisted by some two dozen other ?egota members, Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing them false documents, and sheltering them in individual and group children's homes outside the Ghetto.
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- Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
- Students from rural Kansas -- three ninth grade girls, Megan Stewart, Elizabeth Cambers, and Jessica Shelton, and an eleventh grade girl, Sabrina Coons -- were shown a short clipping from a March 1994 issue of News and World Report by their teacher Mr. Conard, which said, 'Irena Sendler saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942-43'. He told the girls the article might be an error, since he had not heard of this woman ...
- snopes.com: Irena Sendler
- CLAIM: Irena Sendler, a candidate for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, is credited with saving 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust. STATUS: True!
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