Irena Sendler was born February 10, 1910. She was a nurse in her young life. Irena was first married to Mieczyslaw Sendler. She later remarried to Stefan Zgrzembski. She had three children. Their names are Janina, Adam, and Andrzej Zgrzembski. Irena was also a Polish social worker when the Nazis invaded. Her maiden name was Irena Krzyzanowska. Irena named her daughter, Janina Zgrzembski, after her mother. Her mother Janina Krzyzanowska was married to her father, Stanislaw Krzyzanowska. Her father was also a medical doctor. Irena was known for the multiple lives she saved. She found non-Jewish families to adopt the children. She rescued 2,500 Jewish children suffering in the Warsaw Ghetto. For the children that could not be adopted she had …show more content…
She saved the lives of thousands of children in the Holocaust. She helped the children by finding safe and comfortable homes for them with non Jewish families. She later got widespread recognition for her courageous actions! Irena, had also gotten many awards, such as the Commander’s Cross of the order of Polonia highest civilian in 2003 and many others. Irena was a greatly appreciated and brave woman. Sadly, she died on May 12, 2008, in Warsaw, Poland. She was thanked by several thousands of people for her courageous act in this terrible time. She was 98 years old when she passed away. Irena died with the case of pneumonia. She was hospitalized for a month before her passing. Some quotes she said were; “Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.” “The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.” “After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.” “Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.” Lastly, one very wise quote was “I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
During the Holocaust in 1933 a lot of Jewish parents were trying to hide their children to protect them from harm or death by the Nazis. The Nazis were trying to kill all Jewish people. There are a lot of people that were risking their lives for the children of Jews. I’m going to be talking about one of the woman that helped save some children. Caecilia Antonia Maria Loots was a hero of the holocaust because she helped save children while putting her life at risk.
she believed in.The best heroes are the ones that are willing to fight for the good of the
•She was born on Feb. 15, 1910 in Warsaw, Poland. She died on May 12, 2008 in Warsaw, Poland due to pneumonia
paved the way for religious freedom. She was a great leader in the cause for
I could not have realized how true that statement was until after she died when a prayer journal was discovered. In this journal she prayed for everyone else.
Though she received treatment and blood transfusions, she died of uremic poisoning on October 4, 1951, at age 31.
...believed in their causes, and she knew first hand what it was like to be one of them. Eva was a unique First Lady who worked for what she believed in, and will be forever remembered in her country and others around the world.
One quote that really stood out to me, which was said by her language tutor Susan Curtiss, was about why she was nicknamed “Genie.” It was something along the lines of how when we think about what a genie is, we think of a creature coming out of a bottle or whatever, emerging into society for the first time. I agree that “Genie” is very similar to a genie in that after her rescue, she is experiencing the world for the first time.
She would write about all the horrible things that you can imagine happened when people were being round up. How horrible it must have been for her to have to relive all those awful memories of that dark time in history. She went on to write an autobiography on the round up and became very outspoken about human rights and the treatment of those people around you. She and her sister never forgot how lucky they were to survive or the ones that were lost (Cecile Wilderman Kaufer,Holocaust Surviver, Recounts1942 Vel d'Hiv Roundup in Paris
She talked about the importance of doing good things rather than receiving God’s forgiveness for our sins to be saved. The Puritan’s ministers were offended by the way her discussions led to preaching. John Winthrop found out and didn’t like it, so he wanted to put Anne Hutchinson on trial. Hutchinson was accused of breaking the 5th amendment, “honor thy father and thy mother”. Anne said that spoke to her soul directly.
Clara Barton changed the world. She caused a ripple. She matters. Without her, it’s hard to say where the world would be, but it would seem a little dimmer without the presence of this astounding woman to remind people of their humanity and their humility, and the power that every person has the capability of holding in their hands.
25, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois. She was an African American woman, who from a young age had
...nspired to make a change that she knew that nothing could stop her, not even her family. In a way, she seemed to want to prove that she could rise above the rest. She refused to let fear eat at her and inflict in her the weakness that poisoned her family. As a child she was a witness to too much violence and pain and much too often she could feel the hopelessness that many African Americans felt. She was set in her beliefs to make choices freely and help others like herself do so as well.
... she addressed many problems of her time in her writings. She was an inspirational person for the feminism movements. In fact, she awoke women’s awareness about their rights and freedom of choice. She was really a great woman.
She is insightful and open to questioning the conventional thinking; “by praising as right and just what my whole soul revolted against, as it would against something abominable”. That was what led me to examine your teachings critically. I only wanted to unravel one point in them but as soon as I had unraveled, the whole fabric came to pieces. And then I realized that it was only machine-made.” (Ghosts; pg. 31)