Who is Irena Sendler?

Question:

Who is Irena Sendler?

I heard that Irena is a not well known person.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: You are correct in that she doesn't have the media flare or its attention. Many people can directly trace their existence to Irena Sendler; meaning, if she didn't intervene there ancestors would have died.

Irena Sendler (also called Irena Sendlerowa in Polish language) (born 15 February 1910 in Warsaw). Polish social worker. During World War II she was an activist of Polish Underground and Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw, where she helped to save about 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them false documents and hiding places in individual and group children houses out of the Ghetto.
Also see
http://www.irenasendler.org/
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