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Irena Sendler

Polish humanitarian and resistance fighter who rescued Jewish children during WWII.

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Irena Sendler is best known for Saving approximately 2,500 Jewish children during World War II by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and providing them with false identities. On Dead or Alive, Irena Sendler is listed in the Polish Icons category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Irena Sendler is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Saving approximately 2,500 Jewish children during World War II by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and providing them with false identities.
Listed under: Polish Icons

About Irena Sendler

From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom). In the 1930s, Sendler conducted her social work as one of the activists connected to the Free Polish University. From 1935 to October 1943, she worked for the Department of Social Welfare and Public Health of the City of Warsaw. During the war she pursued conspiratorial activities, such as rescuing Jews, primarily as part of the network of workers and volunteers from that department, mostly women. Sendler participated, with dozens of others, in smuggling Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then providing them with false identity documents and shelter with willing Polish families or in orphanages and other care facilities, including Catholic nun convents, saving those children from the Holocaust. The German occupiers suspected Sendler's involvement in the Polish Underground and in October 1943 she was arrested by the Gestapo, but she managed to hide the list of the names and locations of the rescued Jewish children, preventing this information from falling into the hands of the Gestapo. Withstanding torture and imprisonment, Sendler never revealed anything about her work or the location of the saved children. In 1965, she was recognised by the State of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations.

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