Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker. During World War II, she saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing false documents and sheltering them in individual or group children's homes outside the ghetto.

Biographical articles - In the Media - Quotations

Articles and resources

In the Name of their Mothers: The story of Irena Sendler - Documentary film
Irena Sendler - article on the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation Web site.
Irena Sendler (1910 - 2008) - article on the Jewish Virtual Library Web site.Irena's Children - article on the Web site Holocaust Studies
Smuggling Children out of the Ghetto - Irena Sendler was declared a "Righteous among the nations" by the organisation Yad Vashem.
Irena Sendler - Wikipedia article

In the Media

Quiet Heroine Irena Sendler - A photo gallerie with 20 photographs.
Irena Sendler - Wikimedia Commons - Photos Paquin to play Irena Sendler in TV movie - UPI.com
The Irena Sendler Story (2009) (TV)

Irena Sendler, a Catholic hero

Irena Sendler - Life In A Jar

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project

Quotations

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. Irena Sendler --- Quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal. Irena Sendler --- Quoted in "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto" by Rupert Cornwell in The Independent

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Resources for Catholic Educators

Irena Sendler

Articles and resources

In the Media

Irena Sendler, a Catholic hero

Irena Sendler - Life In A Jar

Quotations

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