Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler ( née Krzyzanowska , also referred to as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland , Nom de guerre Jolanta ; 15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008) [1] was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground during World War II, and as head of children's section of Zegota , [2] [3] an underground resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw . Assisted by some two dozen other Zegota members, Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and with housing outside the Ghetto, thereby saving those children from being killed in the Holocaust . [4]
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