An unknown name to most, Irena Sendler is considered a hero. She smuggled 2500 Jewish babies and children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Sendler found safe places for these children to go during the war: orphanages, homes, convents. Because the children had to be given false identities, Sendler kept a jar buried beneath a tree with the children's true identity inside. Her work was discovered by the Nazis, and she was imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo. However, nothing could stop her. When the war was over, she dug up the jar and reunited as many children as she could with their birth families. Though she died in 2008, her act of courage lives on.
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