...Irena Sendler Irena Sendler was born in February 15, 1910, in Warsaw, Poland. She was a member of Zegota (a group that helped Jews during the Holocaust) who at great risk defied the Nazis, and saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghettos. Her father died from typhus, he contracted the disease while treating poor Jewish people; She was greatly influenced by him, and because of him she decided to help the Jews during the Holocaust. Irena and her helpers made over 3,000 false document for the Jews she saved during the war, and she hid their identities until the end of the war. Irena started helping jewish families as early as 1939, when the Germans invaded Warsaw. She began helping by offering food and shelter to the Jews. When the Warsaw...
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...are not allowed to or banned from helping the people? In the Holocaust the German nurses were not allowed to help Jewish kids. Although they weren’t able to help this one brave and caring German nurse went out of her way to be a hero. Irena Sendler is a nurse who was in a group called the “Resistance Movement”. She was in organizations that dealt with the Jews and she would risk her life for them. If they would have caught her and found out what she was doing, she would have been facing worse consequences. She wasn’t afraid of what the Nazis would do because at the time she was just worried about the little Jewish kids. (“Sendler.Irena.”) The Jewish kids that the Nazis had or were taking were being hurt and murdered by Hitler and his men which were the Nazis. Irena saw that when she worked for them so she started doing secret jobs for Jewish people. Most of the people see her as a hero, but she thinks what she did was normal for a person like her because...
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...take his life. He even said, “No matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith [in it].” Both of these quotes both show that anyone could be a hero if they do something to remember and don’t give up even if it doesn’t affect the world it could affect someone’s life. While Gerald is a celebrity you don’t have to be famous to be a hero. Although some others might think a hero is someone who is not only strong...
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