Irena Sendlerowa dead at 98

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She never was given the fame that Oskar Schindler received, but helped save almost twice as many Jews as Schindler did during the Holocaust. The world is a worse place without such an incredible woman.

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Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98

By DENNIS HEVESI

Published: May 13, 2008


Irena Sendler, a Roman Catholic who created a network of rescuers in Poland who smuggled about 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto in World War II, some of them in coffins, died Monday in Warsaw. She was 98.

Katarina Stoltz/Reuters
Irena Sendler in March 2007.





The death was confirmed by Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, an organization that supports rescuers of Holocaust victims.


Mrs. Sendler was head of the children?s bureau of Zegota, an underground organization set up to save Jews after the Nazis invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. Soon after the invasion, approximately 450,000 Jews, about 30 percent of Warsaw?s population, were crammed into a tiny section of the city and barricaded behind seven-foot-high walls.

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