Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Irena Sendler Defied Arrest to Save 2,500 Jewish Children in Poland - ABC News
... as a young woman in wartime Poland, she was a portrait of strength — almost single-handedly defying arrest, torture and the threat of death to save 2,500 Jewish children from almost certain death in Nazi death camps.
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As German troops swept through the Warsaw ghetto, burning Jewish homes and sending entire families to death camps, Sendler created a secret underground network to sneak children to safety.
Across Warsaw, Sendler organized 10 "care centers" — underground institutions staffed by 20 to 30 volunteers, mostly women. Their task was to provide midwives who'd sneak into the ghetto to receive Jewish newborns, and then keep them in hiding until they could find them foster parents or hide them away in convents.
Many convents ran foster homes during the war and Jewish children stood a good chance of surviving there, disguised as non-Jewish orphans of the war. ...
... as a young woman in wartime Poland, she was a portrait of strength — almost single-handedly defying arrest, torture and the threat of death to save 2,500 Jewish children from almost certain death in Nazi death camps.
...
As German troops swept through the Warsaw ghetto, burning Jewish homes and sending entire families to death camps, Sendler created a secret underground network to sneak children to safety.
Across Warsaw, Sendler organized 10 "care centers" — underground institutions staffed by 20 to 30 volunteers, mostly women. Their task was to provide midwives who'd sneak into the ghetto to receive Jewish newborns, and then keep them in hiding until they could find them foster parents or hide them away in convents.
Many convents ran foster homes during the war and Jewish children stood a good chance of surviving there, disguised as non-Jewish orphans of the war. ...
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