THE ANGEL OF THE WARSAW GHETTO

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In the chaos of a country at war and a population to death, thousands of vocations went, this was the case of Irena Sendler: a nurse and Polish Catholic social worker who saved over 2500 children during the second world war , children condemned to be victims of the Holocaust.


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Irena was a nurse in the Department of social welfare of the city of Warsaw, Department responsible for the community kitchens in the city. These dining rooms not only provided food for the poor, elderly and orphans, but it also delivered clothes, medicine and money.

In 1942, with the creation of the Warsaw ghetto, Irena horrified by the conditions in which he lived there, he joined the Council for the support of the Jews.


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Within the ghetto, with an armband with the star of David to not draw attention, visiting Jewish homes to offer to take the children out of the ghetto, this without giving them guarantees of success many of the mothers refused to leave their children. On 1942, with the evacuation of the ghetto, Irena and her collaborators had rescued over 2500 children by different paths: began taking them in ambulances as victims of typhus, but soon it was all kinds of subterfuge that would hide them: bags, garbage cans, tool boxes, shipments of goods, bags of potatoes, coffins.


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The nazis learned of their activities. On October 20, 1943, Irena Sendler was arrested by the official secret police of Nazi Germany and taken to the Pawiak prison, where he was brutally tortured. In a straw mattress found a stamp of Merciful Jesus with the legend: "Jesus, in you I trust", which kept with you until the year 1979, time in which gave Juan Pablo II.

She was sentenced to death. While awaiting execution, a German soldier took her to a further "interrogation". Upon leaving, he shouted in Polish "run!". The next day, he found his own name on the list of the executed poles. Members of Zegota had managed to stop the execution by bribing the Germans, and Irena continued working with a false identity.


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It was recognized as a fair among Nations and was awarded the highest distinction of the civil of Poland to be named Lady of the order of the White Eagle, died on May 12, 2008 at the age of 98.


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