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Irena Sendler: A Survivor Of The Holocaust

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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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