Sendler Irena

  • Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008
  • Sendler, Irena, 1910-2008
  • Krzyżanowska, Irena 1910-2008
  • Krzyżanowska, Irena Stanisława, 1910-2008
  • Sendlerowa, Irena
  • ...
Identifier
000370
Type of Entity
Person

Dates of Existence

15/02/1910

12/05/2008

History

Social worker and an active member in the Polish underground organisation Żegota (Council for Aid to Jews). Smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto providing them with false identity and housing outside the Ghetto. 1965 Righteous Among the Nations.

Places

  • Warsaw, Poland

  • Warsaw, Poland

Sources

  • Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / ed. I. Gutman. - New York : Macmillan, 1990. - v. 3/4, p. 1339