Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic woman with empathy for those around her. She watched Jewish families get moved into ghettos, she reached out and saved around 2,500 Jewish children, and was imprisoned and almost sent to death because of it. The resistance was important to the survival of Jews in the holocaust. People saved thousands of Jews in their efforts against the Nazis. People like Pere Marie-Benoit, Marie and Emile Taquet, and the Polish Zegota organization made huge endeavors against the holocaust. In 1939 German Nazis began to occupy Poland, and in 1940 Irena witnessed the imprisonment of 500,000 Jews in ghettos. She began to offer shelter to her close friends. She starting assembling false documents for Jews, which ultimately ended up saving almost 3,000 Jewish families.…show more content… As she puts it “I lost no time in reflecting [on the danger].” She got the children to safety by having Non-Jewish families adopt them, saving about 2,500 children in total. She smuggled them out through two buildings that straddled the border between the Ghetto and the rest of Warsaw, or for younger children she would place them in gunny sacks or toolboxes and carry them out of the Ghetto, or she would hide them under potatoes in a cart. Once, she took a child out concealed in a coffin. There were also times when she took them out for medical reasons. In that case she would hit her dogs paw to create chaos amongst the Nazis dogs and they would let her
