Sendler Irena has died on May 12, 2008 in Poland.In Memory

Irena Sendler(de domo Krzyzanowska) was a member of Zegota, the clandestine Polish Rescue Organization, who, at great risk, rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto and placed them with Christian families.
She buried jars containing their real and assumed names in the garden, so that they could be one day learn the names of their biological families after the war.
Irena Sendler (called Irena Sendlerowa in Polish language) (born 15 February 1910 in Warsaw in Poland) is a retired Polish Roman Catholic social worker. During World War II she was an activist of Polish Underground and ZEGOTA Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw, where she helped to save about 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them false documents and hiding places in individual and group children houses out of the Ghetto in German-occupied Poland 1939-1945.
During the World War II German occupation of Poland, she lived in Warsaw (before that she lived in Tarczyn) while working for the city's Social Welfare Department. She started helping Jews a long time before the Warsaw Ghetto was established. Helping Jews was very risky — in German-occupied Poland, all household members were punished by death if a hidden Jew was found in their house. This was the most severe legislation in occupied Europe.
In December 1942, the newly created Children's Section of the Żegota Council for Assistance to the Jews, a council to aid Jews, nominated her (under her cover name Jolanta ) to head its children's department. As an employee of the Social Welfare Department, she had a special permit to enter the Warsaw Ghetto, where she wore a Star of David as a sign of solidarity with the Jewish people and so as not to call attention to herself.
She cooperated with the Children's Section of the Municipal Administration, linked with the RGO (Central Welfare Council), a Polish Relief Organization tolerated under German supervision. She organized the smuggling of Jewish children from the Ghetto, carrying them out, and placing them with either Polish families, the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters of the Family of Mary, or Roman Catholic convents such as the Sisters Little Servants of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mary (L.S.I.C.) at Turkowice and Chotomow . She kept lists of the names, hidden in jars, in order to keep track of original and new identities.
Arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo, she was severely tortured and sentenced to death. The Żegota saved her by bribing the German guards on the way to her execution. Officially, she was listed on public bulletin boards as among those executed. Even in hiding, she continued her work for the Jewish children.
In 1965, she was recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations, which was confirmed in 1983 by the Israeli Supreme Court. She also was awarded the Commanders Cross by the Israeli Institute.
On 10 October 2003, Irena Sendler received the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest civilian decoration. Sendler was also awarded the Jan Karski Award "For Courage and Heart", which is given by the American Center of Polish Culture in Washington.
On 14 March 2007, Sendler was honoured by Poland's senate. Polish President Lech Kaczynski stated that she "can be justly named for the Nobel Peace Prize" (nominations are supposed to be kept secret, though). At age 97, she was unable to leave her nursing home to receive the honour, but she sent a statement through Elzbieta Ficowska, whom Sendler saved as a baby.
In 2003, Pope John Paul II sent a personal letter to Sendler, praising her wartime efforts. On 10 October 2003, Irena Sendler received the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest civilian decoration. She was also awarded the Jan Karski Award "For Courage and Heart," given by the American Center of Polish Culture in Washington, D.C.. On 14 March 2007 Sendler was honored by Poland's Senate. Polish President Lech Kaczyński stated that she "can justly be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize" (though nominations are supposed to be kept secret). At age 97, she was unable to leave her nursing home to receive the honor, but she sent a statement through Elżbieta Ficowska, whom Sendler had saved as an infant.
In 2007, considerable publicity accompanied Sendler's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Although failed nominees for the award are not publicly announced by the Nobel organization for 50 years, this publicity focused the spotlight on Sendler and her wartime contribution. The 2007 award was presented to Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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[acapellagirl24]

you forgot that in 2007 she was nominated for the nobel peace prize but she lost. al gore won for a slide show on global warming. i want to take all the idiots of the judjing panel for the nobel peace prize and replace them with people that actually know what is important.

[djaerosoul]

know what is important and take real action risking his own life! no bullshits or limos!

big respect

big inspiration

r.i.p.

[Noukinette93]

Repose en paix, chère Irena ! :)

[domarat11111]

After II WW jews killed 300 000 peoples in Poland. 1 100 000 Poles- inprisoned, 1 500 000 deported to Syberia.

[pAtRiCo1243]

im polish and today on the april 10th 2010 are president died in a plane crash!

[CiaraFutureSuperstar]

i would be extremely proud of this woman if she was from my country.. an inspiration:)

[mariusz1239]

I'm from Poland and I'm proud of her :)

[motorcross88]

RIP! wow...some people really dont deserve to die! she saved over 2500 lives! then there is those sick S.O.B's that molest children and kill people! wish everyone had the peace and respect she had! I will always remember you Irena Sendler!!!