Irena Sendler.ppt
Transcript of Irena Sendler.ppt
Irena Sendler Irena Sendler (Sendlerowa)(Sendlerowa)• Born in 1910• Catholic Social Worker• Used fake ID to pose as a nurse to enter the walled off ghetto• Convinced parents to hand over their children for safer placement in a non-Jewish family• 1965 – The Righteous Among the Nations• 2007 – nominated for Nobel Peace Prize• Died May 12, 2008
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Zegota
• Council for Aid to Jews
• Part of the Polish underground resistance movement organized by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
• Both worked to save the lives of the Jewish people despite threats from the Nazi Government.
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Announcementthat anyone helping Jews would be put to death.
1944
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Order prohibiting people from enteringthe Warsaw ghetto.All earlier passes were not valid.
1943
Fake Identification CardFake Identification Card
The Polish Underground Resistance Movement helped to issue thousands of fake identification cards to the Jewish people to help them escape the atrocities of the ghetto and the concentration camps.
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RescuedRescuedFrom 1942 to 1943 2,500 Jewish babies and young children were rescued from the Warsaw Ghetto by Irena Sendler with the help of the Polish Underground Resistance Movement.
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CapturedCaptured
Caught by the Gestapo in 1943
Spent 3 months in captivity undergoing interrogation and torture
Refused to give up information and was sentenced to death
A guard in the Pawiak Prison was bribed by the Polish Resistance Movement
Irena was freedSpent the rest of
the war in hiding