The Most Impressive Person I’ve Never Heard Of
As an employee of Warsaw’s Social Welfare Department, Sendler had a permit to enter the Ghetto to check for typhus and other infectious diseases. She used that to smuggle Jewish children out, giving them Catholic identities so that they could be raised in secret by sympathizers outside the Ghetto. Babies and infants were smuggled out in ambulances or public transport, sometimes disguised as bundles of belongings. Teenagers were rescued from work gangs sent outside the ghetto. She kept records of their real identities on scraps of paper, which were later buried in a jar under an apple tree until after the war.
Irena Sendler was finally exposed and arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 as well. They tortured her brutally, leaving scars on her body which never faded. Despite their tortures, she never gave away even one of her assistants, or the identity of a single Jewish child she had rescued.
Wow, Just Amazing! I can’t begin to describe my respect.
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