This woman rescued 2500 Jewish children from Warsaw Ghetto risking her own life. She was nominated for Peace Nobel Prize Award last year. I would love to present that great heroic Polish catholic woman to you all. To me she is a real saint!!!!! She is still alive, now 98 years
Ghetto was a place of isolation for Jewish people in Warsaw occupied by Nazi , which Jews were not allowed to leave. Many Jews were killed there for nothing , or from there transported to Auschwitz camp where certain death awaited them. Irena went there and persuaded Jewish parents and grandparents to place their children in her care.
Something more about her from :
http://www.mff.org/newsroom/news.taf?page=202Smuggling the children past Nazi guards through a variety of means – hiding them in body bags or under loads of goods – Ms. Sendler took them into the homes of Polish families, where they were adopted and raised with false identities. Ms. Sendler made lists of these children and placed the lists in a jar that she buried in a garden, hoping she could someday dig up the jar, locate the children and inform them of their past.
From 1942 to 1943, Ms. Sendler managed to smuggle 400 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto before she was captured by the Nazis and severely punished for her actions. Even under extreme torture, she refused to reveal where the lists of the smuggled Jewish children were hidden. Eventually, a member of the Polish underground bribed a guard to release her, and she entered into hiding. Even then, she continued to work with Zegota to rescue another 2,100 children.
