We respect your privacy. These were written on pieces of tissue paper bundled on her bedside table; the plan was to hurl them out of the window if the Gestapo called. The idea of a heroine’s treatment appalled her. 2010 – Poland’s Jewish population is 25,000, 5,000 less than the Jewish population of K.C. She was not allowed to travel, and her children could not study full-time at university. 1999 – Only one web site on net mentions Irena-she is unknown to the world, 2000 – Girls find Irena is still alive and start writing her, 2000 – First national and regional press interviews of the girls, May-2001 – Students, parents Norm travel to Poland to see Irena.

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Under Nazi occupation the Jews of Warsaw were herded into the city ghetto: four square kilometres for around 400,000 souls. 1910 – Irena born in Warsaw, Poland and raised in Otwock, Poland, 1917 – School yard incident-Irena standing up for Jewish children, 1937 – Anti-semitic laws in Poland – college classroom incident, 1939 – Poland has over 3 million Jews, the largest Jewish population in the world and 10% of the Polish population, 1939 – World War II begins- German invasion of Poland from west on September 1, Russia invasion from the East on September 17, 1939 – Irena makes false documents for Jewish families, 1940 – October 16th– The Warsaw Ghetto is established, 1942 – Spring – deportation to Treblinka starts for the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942 – 2,500 children are saved and hidden, 1942 – Irena becomes head of Zegota children’s division, 1942 – Treblinka becomes the major death camp for the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943- April – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins – Irena smuggles guns, 1943- After 8 weeks in Pawiak Prison, Irena is rescued, 1945 – January 27- Auschwitz is liberated by Russian Red Army, 1945 – War ends and communism takes over Poland, 1946 – Poland’s Jewish population is under 200,000, 1946 – Irena is blacklisted by communist government, 1948 – First of ‘Irena’s children’ taken to Israel, 1965 – Yad Vashem recognizes Irena as a Righteous Gentile and plants tree, 1998 – U.H.S. August 2010 – Life in a Jar/the Irena Sendler Project comes out as a book. 2008 – The Polish Embassy in Israel honors Irena with a stamp. January 2009 – A musical score is written about Irena and presented in Israel. Mrs Sendler spent the rest of the war under an assumed name. All this was good preparation for the defiance she was to show after 1939, when the Germans invaded. The organizer of the Irena Sendler Awards in Warsaw – August 17, 2011, with the recipient of the $5,000 Irena Sendler Award prize. National PBS Sunday, May 1, 2011 Presented by KQED Public Television/San Francisco. More often they went by secret passageways from buildings on the outskirts of the ghetto. Inspired by Irena Sendler, they are living examples of the power of one person to change the world and models for young people everywhere. Let's keep in touch and we'll send more your way. More info: Facebook. The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous in New York City offered assistance in sending the money the students had raised to a Polish bank in Warsaw for Irena. An image of Marianne Golz-Goldlust, from jfr.org. Please provide your email address and we will send your password shortly. National Geographic prize & other awards winner. Check your inbox, and click on the link to activate your account. By submitting email you agree to get Bored Panda newsletter. April 2008 – Students visit Irena in Poland for the 5th trip and help present the 2nd annual Irena Sendler Award to a teacher in Poland. Fight boredom with iPhones and iPads here. 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Get the latest inspiring stories via our awesome iOS app! 2019 – The Lowell Milken Center published ‘Mommy, Who is Irena Sendler?’ 2019- 375 th performance of Life in a Jar, on the aircraft carrier Yorktown in Charleston Harbor And there was an extra twist: the history of that suffering was then systematically distorted by the Soviet-imposed Communist rulers, and widely misunderstood abroad. In the segregated lecture halls at Warsaw University, where she studied Polish literature, she and likeminded friends deliberately sat on the ”Jewish” benches. For that, the university suspended her for three years. Bored Panda works best if you switch to our Android app. That bureaucratic loophole allowed her to save more Jews than the far better known Oscar Schindler. It came a little late. Cieszyn is a beautiful town in the southern Poland known for its rich multicultural history. 2007 – Irena does not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, but receives much acclaim. Mrs Sendler need not have worried. Some children could be smuggled out in lorries, or in trams supposedly returning empty to the depot. Her crime was that her work had been authorised and financed by the Polish government-in-exile in London; later, she helped soldiers of the Home Army, the wartime resistance. Many were Jewish. Awarded educators play a crucial role in their school and local community, incorporating Irena … Before World War II it was also the significant hub of Jewish culture. August 2007 – Lowell Milken Center opens, with Irena exhibit. A rebellious great-grandfather was deported to Siberia. There were visits with child survivors (Bieta Ficowska included), the tree site, Warsaw Ghetto, Pawiak, grave of Irena, Rabbi Schudrich and many more. Hey, Pandas! September 2008 – Thousands of American schools work on Irena projects. Her father died of typhus in 1917, after treating patients his colleagues shunned. Many, like Irena Sendler, risked their lives to help Jewish people. In 1948 repeated interrogations by the secret police in late pregnancy cost the life of her second child, born prematurely. May-2001 – Story of Irena breaks on – AP, USAToday, CNN, BBC, etc. Pandas, What Was A Moment When A Stranger Did Something Really Nice For You? No religion motivated her: she acted z potrzeby serca, ”from the need of my heart”. We have sent an email to the address you provided with an activation link. We will not publish or share your email address in any way. The Chapter also recognized The Irena Sendler awardees Jennifer Brzezinski 2015 and Johnie Sanders 2017 for their excellence in social work at Elms College. Klamra Foundation promotes figure of Irena Sendler by creating murals in cities across Poland. We're asking people to rethink comments that seem similar to others that have been reported or downvoted, By using our services you agree to our use of cookies to improve your visit. Squalor and near-starvation (the monthly bread ration was two kilos, or 4.5lb) created ideal conditions for typhus, which would have killed Germans too. Both outfits were now reviled as imperialist stooges. The Irena Sendler Memorial Award, named for the Polish social worker who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation, will be presented to Ms. Radzik and Mr. Bartosz at a ceremony in Kraków at 7 p.m. on June 26, 2019in the Tempel Synagogue, just prior to a concert of the 29th annual Jewish Culture Festival. She was, a friend said, ”born to selflessness, not called to it”. Auschwitz, for example, is still often referred to as a ”Polish death camp”—rather than one run by the country’s Nazi occupiers, in which huge numbers of Polish citizens perished. There is no better hero on a mural that will honor the memory of Jewish heritage in Cieszyn, and cohabitation of two nations tragically affected by fate – Poles and Jews. Irena Sendler died in 2008, at the age of 98. In 2003 she received Poland’s highest honour, the order of the White Eagle. Here lived Poles, Czechs, and Germans. Besides, she felt she had been a bad daughter, risking her elderly mother’s life with her wartime work, a bad wife to both her husbands, and a neglectful mother. There is no better hero on a mural that will honor the memory of Jewish heritage in Cieszyn, and cohabitation of two nations tragically affected by fate – Poles and Jews. The Nazis did catch her (thinking she was a small cog, not the linchpin of the rescue scheme) but did not find the files, secreted in a friend’s armpit. Please enter your email to complete registration.

Self-taught landscape photographer. May  2005 – Students travel to Poland – 3rd trip- see Irena – much press and 3 Life in a Jar performances. April 2009 – Hallmark Hall of Fame- ‘The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler.’ Two Emmys. To save one Jew, she reckoned, required 12 outsiders working in total secrecy: drivers for the vehicles; priests to issue false baptism certificates; bureaucrats to provide ration cards; and most of all, families or religious orders to care for them. Bored Panda works better on our iPhone app! Even before the deportations to the Treblinka death camp started, death could be arbitrary and instant.

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