Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Ire­na Sendler is one of the ​“Oth­er Schindlers.” Dur­ing World War II she helped cre­ate over 3,000 false doc­u­ments to help Jew­ish fam­i­lies and joined the Żego­ta resis­tance (Coun­cil to Aid Jews) as head of their children’s sec­tion. In this capac­i­ty, she smug­gled chil­dren and babies out of ghet­tos and buried lists of the hid­den chil­dren in jars in order to keep track of them. Sendler is rec­og­nized by Yad Vashem as one of the Right­eous Among the Nations, has received numer­ous awards for her coura­geous efforts (includ­ing Poland’s high­est civil­ian dec­o­ra­tion), and there have been efforts to nom­i­nate her for the Nobel Prize.

Want to learn more about Sendler? Check out these great resources:

Life in a Jar: The Ire­na Sendler Project, Jack May­er (March 2011)

Ire­na Sendler: Moth­er of the Chil­dren of the Holo­caust, Anna Mieszkows­ka (Novem­ber 2010)

Ire­na Sendler and the Chil­dren of the War­saw Ghet­to, Susan Gold­man Rubin (April 2011)

The Oth­er Schindler… Ire­na Sendler: Sav­ior of the Holo­caust Chil­dren, Abhi­jit Thite and Priya Gokhale (March 2010)