Irena Sendler courage, dedication and perseverance. ~Women Wednesdays~

Hello friends of the community @hive-140084, Today I want to talk to you about a very special woman Irena Sendler who was nicknamed The Angel of the Warsaw Ghetto for helping save the lives of more than 2,500 children during the Second World War.

Irena Sendler was born in mid-February 1910 in Warsaw. The daughter of a doctor, she was always related to medicine. When Germany invaded Poland, Irena worked as a nurse in Warsaw.

Irena did not remain impassive in the face of the serious atrocities committed by the Nazi regime and she joined the resistance in her country. When the Warsaw Ghetto was established in 1940 she led a cunning plan to remove Jewish children from the ghetto. Taking advantage of her position during health inspections, she managed to extract children in multiple ways and send them to adoptive families or to orphanages and convents.
And she did it with a peculiarity and that is that she documented each outing in glass jars that she buried in her garden. This allowed a large part of these children to return to their families at the end of the war.

She was eventually arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo and tortured. But she never gave relevant information for which she was sentenced to death. Luckily for her, the resistance bribed several German soldiers who were guarding her and managed to escape from her.
Irena received multiple awards for her work but not the Nobel Peace Prize for which she was nominated in 2007.
She lived to be 98 years old until she died in May 2008. Her long life was always an example of fight and tenacity that we should all admire.

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