Bored Panda works better on our iPhone app. National PBS Sunday, May 1, 2011 Presented by KQED Public Television/San Francisco. The idea of a heroine’s treatment appalled her. The penalty for helping Jews was instant execution. POLAND suffered more than any other European country during the second world war. You can change your preferences.

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Before World War II it was also the significant hub of Jewish culture. No religion motivated her: she acted z potrzeby serca, ”from the need of my heart”. 2014 – 50 million hits on Irena Sendler website since students started site in, 2015 – 3,000 media stories on Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project, 2016 – New Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes opens with dynamic Irena Sendler exhibit, 2017 – Life in a Jar/the Irena Sendler Projectis in top three of all 8,000 Holocaust books on amazon.com for 7th straight year. 2018 – Mr. C. receives the Irena Sendler Award from Taube Foundation and Polish government. These were written on pieces of tissue paper bundled on her bedside table; the plan was to hurl them out of the window if the Gestapo called. Besides, she felt she had been a bad daughter, risking her elderly mother’s life with her wartime work, a bad wife to both her husbands, and a neglectful mother. Yet a paradox created a sliver of hope. Certainly she had good genes. Mural: Klamra Foundation | Dariusz Paczkowski | Aneta Paszek. 2019 – The Lowell Milken Center published ‘Mommy, Who is Irena Sendler?’ 2019- 375 th performance of Life in a Jar, on the aircraft carrier Yorktown in Charleston Harbor An image of Marianne Golz-Goldlust, from jfr.org.

By submitting email you agree to get Bored Panda newsletter. Like many social workers in pre-war Poland, Mrs Sendler belonged to the Socialist party: not for its political ideology, she said, but because it combined compassion with dislike of money-worship. More often they went by secret passageways from buildings on the outskirts of the ghetto. Irena Sendler died in 2008, at the age of 98. May 12, 2008 – Megan Stewart Felt’s birthday (plays Irena). We have sent an email to the address you provided with an activation link. Hey, Pandas! Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse. Irena Sendler … National Geographic prize & other awards winner. 2018 – Mr. C. receives the Irena Sendler Award from Taube Foundation and Polish government. 2007 –Mandatory Holocaust education in Polish schools.

Her daughter once asked to be admitted to the children’s home where her mother worked after the war, in order to see more of her. 2019 – The Lowell Milken Center published ‘Mommy, Who is Irena Sendler?’, 2019- 375th performance of Life in a Jar, on the aircraft carrier Yorktown in Charleston Harbor, Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress, Timeline of Irena Sendler’s Life and the Life in a Jar Project. Self-taught landscape photographer. Your account is not active. When nationalist thugs beat up a Jewish friend, she defaced her grade card, crossing out the stamp that allowed her to sit on the ”Aryan” seats. Check your inbox, and click on the link to activate your account.
Sixty percent of the royalties from the sale of Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project are donated to the Irena Sendler/Life in a Jar Foundation. People were so inspired by the project that they sponsored an "Irena Sendler Day." 2018 – Irena Sendler Year in Poland.

Her crime was that her work had been authorised and financed by the Polish government-in-exile in London; later, she helped soldiers of the Home Army, the wartime resistance. We're asking people to rethink comments that seem similar to others that have been reported or downvoted, By using our services you agree to our use of cookies to improve your visit. Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. 1999 – Only one web site on net mentions Irena-she is unknown to the world, 2000 – Girls find Irena is still alive and start writing her, 2000 – First national and regional press interviews of the girls, May-2001 – Students, parents Norm travel to Poland to see Irena.
1910 – Irena born in Warsaw, Poland and raised in Otwock, Poland, 1917 – School yard incident-Irena standing up for Jewish children, 1937 – Anti-semitic laws in Poland – college classroom incident, 1939 – Poland has over 3 million Jews, the largest Jewish population in the world and 10% of the Polish population, 1939 – World War II begins- German invasion of Poland from west on September 1, Russia invasion from the East on September 17, 1939 – Irena makes false documents for Jewish families, 1940 – October 16th– The Warsaw Ghetto is established, 1942 – Spring – deportation to Treblinka starts for the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942 – 2,500 children are saved and hidden, 1942 – Irena becomes head of Zegota children’s division, 1942 – Treblinka becomes the major death camp for the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943- April – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins – Irena smuggles guns, 1943- After 8 weeks in Pawiak Prison, Irena is rescued, 1945 – January 27- Auschwitz is liberated by Russian Red Army, 1945 – War ends and communism takes over Poland, 1946 – Poland’s Jewish population is under 200,000, 1946 – Irena is blacklisted by communist government, 1948 – First of ‘Irena’s children’ taken to Israel, 1965 – Yad Vashem recognizes Irena as a Righteous Gentile and plants tree, 1998 – U.H.S. August 2005 – Irena Sendler web site reaches 1.5 million hits, April 2006 – The 1st Irena Sendler Award is given in Warsaw, May 2006 – 200th presentation of Life in a Jar in New Bedford, Mass. Thanks to a well-placed bribe, she escaped execution; the children’s files were buried in glass jars. There were visits with child survivors (Bieta Ficowska included), the tree site, Warsaw Ghetto, Pawiak, grave of Irena, Rabbi Schudrich and many more. Even before the deportations to the Treblinka death camp started, death could be arbitrary and instant. Under torture she revealed nothing. Klamra Foundation promotes figure of Irena Sendler by creating murals in cities across Poland.

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