Pole who saved ghetto Jews dies [View All]

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 11:38 GMT, Monday, 12 May 2008 12:38 UK

Pole who saved ghetto Jews dies

The death of a Polish woman who almost certainly saved
the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II
has been announced.

Irena Sendlerowa organised the rescue of the children
from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

She died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98, her
daughter said.

After Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, she took
great risks to help Polish Jews held by the Nazis -
an act that was punishable by death.

In 1942 Irena Sendlerowa joined the Zegota resistance
movement.

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