The 'Female Schindler"

The 'Female Schindler" She saved 2,500 Jewish children but died wishing she'd rescued more.
By Richard pendlebury

She smuggled out the children in suitcases, ambulances, coffins, sewer pipes, rucksacks and, on one occasion, even a tool box. Those old enough to ask knew their saviour only by her codename "Jolanta".But she kept hidden a meticulous record of all their real names and new identities - created to protect the Jewish youngsters from the pursuing Nazis - so they might later be re-united with their families. Her finest hour: Irena Sendler rescued thousands of Jewish children, By any measure, Irena Sendler was one of the most remarkable and noble figures to have emerged from the horrors of World War II.

But, until recently, her extraordinary compassion and heroism went largely unrecorded. When the Germans finally caught her, the Roman Catholic social worker had managed to save 2,500 Jewish babies and toddlers from deportation to the concentration camps. 

She had spirited them out of the heavily-guarded Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, and hidden their identities in two glass jars buried under an apple tree in her neighbour's garden. She was beaten, tortured and sentenced to death by the Gestapo - who even announced her execution. But Irena survived, her spirit unbroken, her secrets untold. She died last week, in her modest Warsaw apartment, aged 98. What a woman she was. For once, the term "heroine" is no exaggeration, though such plaudits did not sit easily with her.

She said: "I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. "The term 'heroine' irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little." Irena always ascribed her desire to do good to the influence of her parents, in particular her father, a Polish physician in a small town near Warsaw. Most of his patients were poor Jews. He died during a typhus epidemic when Irena was seven.

When the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, Irena was working as a senior administrator in Warsaw's social welfare department. She was responsible for food and financial aid to the city's poor.


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Do you know how she escaped from being shot by The Gestapo ?

The Resistance 'paid off'  the officer in charge, to let her go  and she was told to run away, although running  was not something she could do very well for they had mangled her feet so badly.

A remarkable woman who met such resistance and stubborness from the jewish Rabbis and elders who believed that God was going to save them,, but He had already sent her! At any time she could have been caught, and the game would have been up but  God had a bigger purpose in this, for the Jews are His covenant people.She was an extremely humble woman much loved by her God...