Listen to this story. She is a woman that most of us never heard about . She just died at 98. She rescued Nazi Children in the war.
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Irena Sendler is a polish heroine who risked her life to save lives of Jewish children from Gestapo and Nazi death camps during World War II.
In German-occupied Poland, a Pole assisting Jews would get a death sentence.
Irena worked as senior administrator in the Warsaw Social Welfare Department that ran the canteens of the city, when Germany invaded the country in 1939. The canteens not only provided food, financial aid and other services for orphans, elderly, and poor but also clothing, medicine and money for Jewish families. To avoid inspections, they were registered under fictitious Catholic names and they were reported as patients suffering highly contagious diseases such as typhus or tuberculosis.