1. Irena Sendler
Righteous Gentile

2. Irena Sendler (Sendlerowa)
Born in 1910
Catholic Social Worker
Used fake ID to pose as a nurse to enter the walled off ghetto
Convinced parents to hand over their children for safer placement in a non-Jewish family
1965 – The Righteous Among the Nations
2007 – nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Died May 12, 2008

3. Council for Aid to Jews
Part of the Polish underground resistance movement organized by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka
Both worked to save the lives of the Jewish people despite threats from the Nazi Government.
Zegota

4. Announcement that anyone helping Jews would be put to death. 1944

5. All earlier passes were not valid.
Order prohibiting
people from entering
the Warsaw ghetto.
All earlier passes were not valid.
1943

6. Fake Identification Card
The Polish Underground Resistance Movement helped to issue thousands of fake identification cards to the Jewish people to help them escape the atrocities of the ghetto and the concentration camps.
Fake Identification Card

7. Rescued
From 1942 to ,500 Jewish babies and young children were rescued from the Warsaw Ghetto by Irena Sendler with the help of the Polish Underground Resistance Movement.

8. Before the War
After the War
Religious Changes

9. Captured Caught by the Gestapo in 1943
Spent 3 months in captivity undergoing interrogation and torture
Refused to give up information and was sentenced to death
A guard in the Pawiak Prison was bribed by the Polish Resistance Movement
Irena was freed
Spent the rest of the war in hiding
Captured

10. After the war, Irena began to try and reunite all of the children in the jar with their families.
Irena and her work were all but forgotten until her story was discovered by a group of high school students in 1999.
Life in a Jar