Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska, AKA in Poland Irena Sendlerowa, Nom de guerre Jolanta; 15 February 1910  12 May 2008) [1] was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. Assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members, Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out
Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska, AKA in Poland Irena Sendlerowa, Nom de guerre Jolanta; 15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008)[1] was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota[2][3] resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. Assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members, Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and with housing outside the Ghetto…