Irena Sendler

Also known as Jolanta, Irena Zgrzembski, Irena Sendlerowa, Irena Stanisława Krzyżanowska, Irena Stanisława Sendler

Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer (1910-2008)

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Irena Sendler was a person recognized in the Righteous Among The Nations collection. She had three children and was baptized on February 2, 1917. Her dates of birth are listed as October 20, 1910, and February 15, 1910. She passed away on May 12, 2008.

Sendler is associated with five works. She stated that she was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. She also noted that she still carried the marks on her body of what those "German supermen" did to her, adding that she was sentenced to death.

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5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,210x
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,992x
2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: <i>lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,854x
Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2021 · cited 6,844x

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Quotes

“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.”
“I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death.”
“Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”
“I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.”
“Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.”
“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.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Irena Stanisława Sendler (née Krzyżanowska; 15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008), operating under the nom de guerre Jolanta, was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom).

In the 1930s, Sendler conducted her social work as one of the activists connected to the Free Polish University. From 1935 to October 1943, she worked for the Department of Social Welfare and Public Health of the City of Warsaw. During the war she pursued conspiratorial activities, such as rescuing Jews, primarily as part of the network of workers and volunteers from that department, mostly women. Sendler participated, with dozens of others, in smuggling Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then providing them with false identity documents and shelter with willing Polish families or in orphanages and other care facilities, including Catholic nun convents, saving those children from the Holocaust.

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