Polish social worker Irena Sendler, born on this day in 1910, rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. She took a stand against cruelty and injustice - at great risk to her own life. Learn the facts about the Holocaust at www.AboutHolocaust.org | World Jewish Congress

Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker who smuggled nearly 2500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two. Her father a doctor who died treating poor Jewish patients inspired in her a deep sense of duty. Using her credentials she gained access under the guise of sanitary inspections. With her network they concealed children in ambulances on stretchers in large toolboxes sacks and even coffins and gave each new identities. She secretly buried the list of original na