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Irena Sendler, an activist during World War II, died today at the age of 98. Sendler gave justice to the Polish Underground and the Żegota Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw. She helped save a considerable ammount of 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them false documents and sheltering them in individual and group children's homes outside the Ghetto. She cooperated with the Children's Section of the Municipal Administration, linked with the RGO (Central Welfare Council), a Polish Relief Organization tolerated under German supervision. She organized the smuggling of Jewish children from the Ghetto, carrying them out in boxes, suitcases and trolleys.
Arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo, she was severely tortured and sentenced to death. The Żegota saved her by bribing the German guards on the way to her execution. She was left in woods, unconcious and with broken arms and limbs. Officially, she was listed on public bulletin boards as among those executed. Even in hiding, she continued her work for the Jewish children.
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Irena Sendler, an activist during World War II, died today at the age of 98. Sendler gave justice to the Polish Underground and the Żegota Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw. She helped save a considerable ammount of 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them false documents and sheltering them in individual and group children's homes outside the Ghetto. She cooperated with the Children's Section of the Municipal Administration, linked with the RGO (Central Welfare Council), a Polish Relief Organization tolerated under German supervision. She organized the smuggling of Jewish children from the Ghetto, carrying them out in boxes, suitcases and trolleys.
Arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo, she was severely tortured and sentenced to death. The Żegota saved her by bribing the German guards on the way to her execution. She was left in woods, unconcious and with broken arms and limbs. Officially, she was listed on public bulletin boards as among those executed. Even in hiding, she continued her work for the Jewish children.
