Irena Sendler. Guardian Angel of the Warsaw Ghetto Bashny.Net

Woman rescued more than 2,500 children from the camp, working as a nurse every day, she took out a bag and 1 child, risking their lives every day! During WWII, Irena Sendler - the employee of the Warsaw Office of Public Health and a member of the Polish underground organization - the Council for Aid to Jews (Zegota) - often visited the Warsaw ghetto, where traces of sick children. Under this cover she and her companions were taken from the ghetto 2500 children who were further transferred to the Polish children's home, in private families and in convents.
Infants were given sleeping pills, placed in small boxes with holes so they do not suffocate, and took out a machine that delivered the camp of disinfectants. Some children are withdrawn through the cellars of houses adjacent to the ghetto. Used for shoots and gutter hatches. Other children carried in bags, baskets, cartons.
Babies she hid in a box from under the instrument, older children - under a tarpaulin in the back of the truck. In addition, in the back sitting dogs trained to bark when the car admitted to the ghetto or produced from it; According to another version, the dog was sitting in the cab and the driver when leaving the gate step on her paw, the dog barked. Drowned out the noise of a dog barking or crying babies published.
Irena Sendler recorded data of all the saved children on narrow strips of tissue paper and hid the list in glass bottle. The bottle was buried under an apple tree in the garden of a friend, with a view after the war to locate the relatives of children.
October 20, 1943 arrested by an anonymous denunciation. After the torture, she was sentenced to death, but she was rescued, the guards who accompanied her to the place of execution, were bribed. In official documents it was declared executed. Until the end of the war, Irena Sendler was hiding, but continued to help Jewish children.





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