Irena Sendler

Try to imagine living in a ghetto or concentration camp. That's the life the children in the Warsaw Ghetto lived, until Irena Sendler appeared. Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse and social worker in the Warsaw Ghetto department for social well being. She saved over 2,500 babies and children from the Warsaw Ghetto between 1942 and 1943. She is a true lifesaver, a Hero.

Since starvation and disease, especially typhus, were spreading in the Warsaw Ghetto, Irena was sent to the Ghetto to take care of the sick people. She was a brave and caring woman. She decided to take many risks. She would smuggle children out of the Ghetto, and transport them by ambulances and trucks as if they were sick from typhus. She hid small babies and children inside trash cans, tool chests, supply boxes, and coffins. Then she hid them in Catholic homes, and created new identities for them. She listed all their names on tissue paper, so that one day they could be hopefully reunited with their families. She would put the lists into jars that she would later bury beside a tree in her friend's garden.

Irena used the old courthouse on the edge of the Warsaw Ghetto as one of the main routes of smuggling children out. But On October 20, 1943, Irena was arrested by the Gestapo. She was beaten and tortured and both of her feet and legs were broken, but not her spirit. She didn't tell anything. She was at one point, sentenced to death. But she didn't give up, she wasn't afraid. Under all circumstances, she was able to free herself, even after being captured by the police and imprisoned. She was brutally tortured, but was reunited with her team, The Polish Underground Resistance.

After the war was over, she tried to find as many families she could to reunite with the children, but unfortunately, most parents didn't survive the concentration camps. But she didn't leave the children. She did all she could to find a proper family for each child. Those who had some family relatives left were sent to live with them, some would be sent to orphanages, and others were later adopted.

In conclusion, Irena Sendler was a great hero. She risked most of her life helping others, saving children from death. She was a loving, caring and brave woman. She was once caught, but wasn't afraid of the torture. She didn't give away the places of the hidden children, and escaped with her team. Even after the war was over, she helped the children find good and loving and caring homes for each one. She did all that was in her power to find family relatives to take care of the children. She was a regular woman, who saved 2,500 babies and children.