Irena Sendler: In The Name Of Their Mothers

The Germans were deporting 5 to 10 thousand Jews a day at the Umschlagplatz. Were the Jews would be tightly packed in cattle cars and shipped off to death camps like treblinka were they would be sent to labor or the gas chambers were you executed. Death camps would try to hide what’s really going on. The death camps would say turn in all your valuables so you can be delouced but what they really are doing is sending you to your death.People that are war profiteers would sell some of the valuables that were collected at the death camps. So Irena was terrified when they started deportation she was afraid that all the kids that she put in the orphanage in the ghetto. Several days after wards there was tremence fire fights that broke out all over the ghetto. So Irena sprung into action thinking that the Germans would be distracted from all the fighting so that Irena can smuggle more Jewish kids into the Aryan side. Irena looked at danger straight in the face and smuggled kids through the sewer. Once the Nazi got wind of people smuggling Jews through the sewer they started putting posing the sewers so in anybody went down there they would die. That day Irena smuggled almost 200 kids throughout these

Children were separated from their parents. Once their parents were safe she believed that they should be reunited with them. Irena wrote down every kids name and where they were staying. “Sendler wrote down all relevant information in a special code on used cigarette papers she collected,” ( “Irena Sendler,” [World Biography] 2). Using code allowed her to know where they were but no one else could get that information. But just writing in code wasn’t safe enough. “These lists of names were then put in jars and buried in the yard of a friend’s house at 9 Ledarska Street in Warsaw,” (“Irena sendler,” [World Biography] 3). The list was safe from the Naxis hands because she buried it. She kept this list in order to reunite them with there parents but unfortunately were died. “ Most of the Ghetto families had died at the Treblinka death camp,”(“Irena Sendler,” [World Biography] 3). Despite her best efforts she wasn’t successful at reuniting them. Irena wanted the children to have there parents and took steps to make that happen, but most of their parents died during the world. The effort she made was notable because after saving them she could be done but she still wanted to help

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Born in Poland, Henia Weit was the youngest of nine children in her family. She lived in a town by the name of Sambor. Unfortunately, the town was bombarded by German soldiers shortly after Hitler started his reign of terror on the Jews. Henia’s family was forced to do laborious work in a ghetto until they were all deported to a concentration camp. Fortunately for Henia, she was able to escape and never went to the concentration camp herself. Instead, she had to survive for several years alone, with only her sister to turn to.

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Life In A Jar: The Irena Sendler Project was a true story about three teenagers from Kansas who study the then hidden story of Irena Sendler and her efforts in helping 2,500 children escape the largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi occupied Europe. The ghetto was located in Warsaw, Poland. The story of Irena comes into light in Uniontown Kansas, year 2000. Liz Cambers takes a history class in which the students must create a project for Nation History Day. This is when Sendler’s story is uncovered. Struck by the courage and accomplishment of Irena, Liz and two other students, Megan and Sabrina write a play showcasing Sendler and what she did for the people in the ghetto. The Warsaw ghetto held over 400,000 jews in a 1.3 sq. mile area. At least 245,000 of these residents were deported east to Treblinka extermination camp in the course of two months in 1942. However between Grossaktion Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and razing,

After the World War II life did resume for Irena Sendler, but not in the same way. When she came out of hiding, after the war, she received some shame from people because she had aided the Jewish people. It wasn’t until about twenty years later that her work began receiving awards for her work. In 1965 she received righteous among the nations award from Yad Veshem in Jerusalem. Part of the reason people had not acknowledged what she had done right away was because the work was very secretive and it stayed that way after the war. Even though Sendler eventually received praise for her work she stayed very humble and wishes “[she] could have done more and this regret will follow [her] to death” (Sendler). In 1999 few people knew of Irena Sendler

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