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Life And Work Of Irena Sendler During World War II

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This research report describes the life and work of Irena Sendler during world war ii in the occupied by Nazis soldiers in Poland. The report will include information on her life from birth until her death and the work for humanitarian efforts that she had done for thousands of Jewish families and their children.
This report will give details of how Irena sender had rescued the children and saving their lives from certain death by smuggling them out of the worst Ghetto controlled by Nazis. Irena had studied in Poland and became a humanitarian aid providing the services inside the Warsaw Ghetto.
By using her studies and career as a cover for her work inside as an aide and social worker, she could collaborate with others …show more content…

Some parents didn’t want to let their children go, and she had to return to try to convenience them that the effort of getting them out to try to get them out, was better than leaving them in the Warsaw ghetto. The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto in Poland.
Since Irena lived there and worked there she had knowledge of where the best places were to smuggle the children out and how to do the best for the children in seeing to their safety. The Germans had ordered the Jews into these ghettos; There in these ghettos the families were literally trapped. They were ordered there to were badges and different clothing to identify them as Jews. In these ghettos during the early part of the war, the Jews were ordered to perform hard labor for the German Reich. There were an estimated 400,000 Jews in Warsaw.
There would have to stay confined to an area of the city that was only one square mile. A little more than a year later, in November 1940 the war got worse and things were taking a turn for the worse for the Jewish people there. The Nazis sealed that one square mile with brick walls topped with barbed wire and armed guards. There was no way to escape. All Jews were trapped now. If they were to try to escape, they would be shot on the spot. Irena Sendler had continued to smuggle out the children. It was a lot tougher but she never

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