When people think about the Holocaust, they immediately think about Hitler’s concentration camps and the death of six million Jews. This often brings up the question, why didn’t anybody care? Why didn’t anyone try to help these people? Did everyone hate the Jews? What people don’t know is many people did try to help the Jews, including a women named Irena Sendler. Irena Sendler was a Catholic woman born in Otwock, Poland, February 15th, 1910. Her father was a doctor but died from typhus when Irena was just a child. Irena got married in 1931 and moved to Warsaw before the war. She became a social worker who worked in canteens. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, she decided to help out the Jewish people by giving supplying them with food and …show more content…
Irena and her colleagues got fake Christian names and also managed to get a pass from Warsaw’s Epidemic control department. This enabled her to go in and out of the Warsaw Ghetto daily. He would bring basic necessities to the people in the Ghetto, but this was not enough. Irena decided to join the Zegota. Zegota were a underground organization that helped the Jews. Together with their help, Irena smuggled children out of the Ghetto. The kids were smuggled in body bags, potato sacks and coffins. Irena would forge documents that will give new identities for the escapees. After helping the children escape, she would find a non-Jewish family to shelter these orphans. It was often very difficult for Irena to find these families as many people did not want to risk the Nazis finding out. On October 20, 1943 the Nazis figured out Irena’s schemes and was arrested in Pawiak Prison. The Nazis tortured Irena to get information about Zegota and the children she saved, even though the Nazis broke her feet and legs, she did not give in and was sentenced to death. Irena’s associates bribed the prison guards to delay the execution and successfully helped Irena escape prison. By the end of the Holocaust, Irena, with the help of her friends saved nearly saved 2500 innocent