IRENA SENDLER POLAND ACTIVISTS SAVED 2500 CHILDRENS FROM DEATH CAMP DURING WORLD WAR II
IRENA SENDLER POLAND ACTIVISTS SAVED 2500 CHILDRENS FROM DEATH CAMP DURING WORLD WAR II Irena Sendler (Poland) Irena Sendler Irena Sendler meeting with Polish youth movement members, Warsaw, 1990s Irena Sendler's daughter and granddaughter next to the tree planted in her honor, Yad Vashem, 2010 The tree planted in honor of Irena Sendler. Yad Vashem, 2012 When World War II broke out, Irena Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker, employed by the Welfare Department of the Warsaw municipality. After the German occupation, the department continued to take care of the great number of poor and dispossessed people in the city. Irena Sendler took advantage of her job in order to help the Jews, however this became practically impossible once the ghetto was sealed off in November 1940. Close to 400,000 people had been driven into the small area that had been allocated to the ghetto, and their situation soon deteriorated. The poor hygienic conditions in the crowded ghet...