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…
them placed in a convent. She saved many scared, horrified, and terrified children. These children were also in a big risk of death. In the position they were in she saved their lives. Irena Sendler was an amazing, young, and brave woman! Irena grew up in the Jewish ghetto, which is also known as Warsaw. She lived with her mother, Janina Krzyzanowski and father, Stanislaw Krzyzanowski, as an only child. As a young woman, her father deeply influenced her because he was a doctor and one of Polish first socialist. Irena had grown up watching her father tend to the poor and needy and this had sparked a desire to to help the needy and the underprivileged in whatever way she could! On February 1917, her father had died from Typhus while treating jewish patients that the other doctors had refused to treat. Irena was only seven years old when her father had passed. She later studied Polish literature at Warsaw University, and joined the Polish Socialist party. Irena was a very courageous woman and openly protested against the ghetto-bench system that existed at some prewar Polish Universities. Doing so, it did not pay off too well for Irena, she was suspended from Warsaw University for three years! When the Germans started to invading Warsaw in 1939 and started doing horrific and unspeakable things to the Jews, she had made it her priority to help them by giving them food, water, and shelter! She worked with some of her trusted allies and used her position to keep safe thousands of false documents to help the Jewish families. She was in charge of the a Polish underground group to assist Jewish people, the children’s division of Zegota! Irena Sendler is most remembered for her act of bravery!
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.
The term ‘hero’ irritates me greatly – the opposite is true – I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.” As you can tell Irena believed people were of value and should never be put in that kind of position, especially children. When people were in need she helped. She was a generous, brave, courageous, beautiful, and wise. She was believed to have a very kind heart. In conclusion, Irena Sendler was a brave and marvelous woman, who stood up for what she believed in and made a huge impact on many people’s lives! She is a hero to many people all over the world and definitely to me. The reason i chose to write about Irena is because she had so much bravery and she loved to help people. She didn’t care if she was putting her own life at risk, she only cared about the children she was saving. I hope to have as much courage and bravery as she had one day! She was a very wise woman that lived a long heroic life.
It was her cells that became what is known as HELA cells or immortal cells. Her story is interesting to me because of her impact on the science community. Her cells allowed scientist to perform
she believed in.The best heroes are the ones that are willing to fight for the good of the
turn the light of truth upon,”10 which is something she truly fought for and succeeded
•When the war ended, Irena tracked down all of the children that she rescued by using the names and the notes that she wrote on those pieces of paper that she buried. She did this to try to bring the families together again.
...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.
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.
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.
Maria Eva Ibarguren, called Eva or Evita later in her life, was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos, Argentina. Eva was born with her mother’s surname due to the fact that her parents were not married. Her father was married to another woman, and Eva’s mother was his mistress, making Eva’s family his second, illegitimate family. Despite this, Eva and her siblings preferred to use their father’s last name, Duarte.
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.
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
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 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)