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A woman who saved 2,500 children in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII (Holocaust hero dies at 98)

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A woman who saved 2,500 children in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII (Holocaust hero dies at 98)
WARSAW, Poland - Irena Sendler — credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets — died Monday, her family said. She was 98. Sendler, among the first to be honored by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial as a Righteous Among Nations for her wartime heroism, died at a Warsaw hospital, daughter Janina Zgrzembska told The Associated Press.
President Lech Kaczynski expressed "great regret" over Sendler's death, calling her "extremely brave" and "an exceptional person." In recent years, Kaczynski had spearheaded a campaign to put Sendler's name forward as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker with the city's welfare department when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, launching World War II. Warsaw's Jews were forced into a walled-off ghetto.

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1 response // A woman who saved 2,500 children in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII (Holocaust hero dies at 98)

  • wow 2,500 children!
    thats amazing this woman should be recognized.
    ive never heard of her until now. :]
    veg_kid

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