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Inclou el nom: Irena Sendlerowa

Crèdit de la imatge: Irena SENDLER / Irena SENDLEROWA

Obres de Irena SENDLER

Irena Sendler: Mother of the Children of the Holocaust (2006) — Honoree — 38 exemplars
Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers [2011 film] (2011) — Associated Name — 8 exemplars
Ostatnia droga Doktora — Autor — 2 exemplars
Historia Ireny Sendlerowej (2018) — Honoree — 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Irena Sendlerowa: Des papiers pour mémoire (2016) — Associated Name — 1 exemplars
Courageous heart of Irena Sendler — Associated Name — 1 exemplars

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SENDLER, Irena
SENDLEROWA, Irena
SENDLER, Irena Stanisława
Data de naixement
1910-02-15
Data de defunció
2008-05-12
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
Poland
Lloc de naixement
Warsaw, Poland
Lloc de defunció
Warsaw, Poland
Llocs de residència
Warsaw, Poland
Otwock, Poland
Educació
Warsaw University, Poland
Professions
social worker
nurse
resistance member
Holocaust rescuer
Premis i honors
Righteous among the Nations (1965)
Order of the White Eagle (2003)
Jan Karski Courage to Care Award
Biografia breu
Irena Sendler, née Krzyżanowska, was born in Warsaw, Poland, the only child of Janina and Dr. Stanislaw Krzyżanowski, a physician, and grew up in Otwock.

Her father died from typhus, which he contracted while treating patients, when Irena was seven years old. Afterwards, many in the Jewish community helped to fund her education. She studied Polish literature at Warsaw University, where she disagreed with policies that discriminated against Jews, and was given a three-year suspension. In 1931, Irena married Mieczysław Sendler, and the couple moved to Warsaw. At the start of World War II, as Nazi Germany invaded her homeland, she began to assist the city's Jews, providing food, water, medicine, and clothing. However, once the Warsaw Ghetto was built in 1940, her access to those who needed her help was cut off. She then started to plan other ways in which to help.

Irena persuaded families to let her smuggle children out of the Ghetto, using her status as a social worker and documents obtained from the underground group Zegota (Committee for Aid to Jews, established 1942). Irena was appointed the head of Zegota's children’s division. It is estimated that Irena and her team helped rescue about 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.
Those rescued were sent to various orphanages and religious institutions that took in Jewish children under false names.

On October 20, 1943, Irena was arrested by the Nazis and sent to Piawiak prison, where she was tortured for information and sentenced to death. However, her fellow Zegota members bribed workers in the prison to let her escape.

Irena went into hiding for the rest of the war. Once it was over, she dug up the many small jars she and Zegota members had buried in a garden with detailed records and lists of the children and their real identities, so that she could try to connect them with their families. After the war, Irena continued her career as a social worker. She received numerous awards for her work as a Holocaust rescuer, included Yad Vashem’s Righteous Among the Nations, the Jan Karski Courage to Care Award, and Poland’s Order of the White Eagle. The story of her life was told in a 2009 television film called The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler.

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This informative and moving book has been difficult for me to plow through, even though it is well-written. What took place in Warsaw is almost unfathomable. Irena's work was brave and heroic, even if she herself did not think so. I keep thinking about those Polish people who in the pre-war years didn't like the idea of sharing their country with Jews. I wonder when the Germans' actions became too much for them. Was it when the Germans restricted Jewish businesses? Was it when Jews were forced to identify themselves with yellow stars on their clothing? Was it when the Germans forced the Jews to move to the Ghetto? Was it when they started shooting Jews for perceived offenses? When they rounded them up and put them on trains headed toward their deaths? When the children from the orphanage (with their caretaker who calmly refused to leave them) were put on those same trains? When they started shooting children in the streets? Only when the Gestapo tortured and killed sympathizers and people woring to save Jewish children? Or not even then? How does this story parallel with elements of our society in the US today? I can't think of anyone who wouldn't be moved by reading this book.… (més)
 
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CarolHicksCase | Hi ha 20 ressenyes més | Mar 12, 2023 |
And incredible and, until recently, unknown true story of a brave group in wartime Poland who saved 2,500 Jewish children.
 
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AnnEly | Hi ha 20 ressenyes més | Nov 19, 2022 |
Une enquête (très lisible) sur ce que fut la vie (et le courage) dans Varsovie occupée.
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Nikoz | Hi ha 20 ressenyes més | Jul 7, 2022 |

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Membres
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Ressenyes
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ISBN
41
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10
Preferit
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