Żegota

included communists, Czechoslovaks, Greeks. Gypsies, Handicapped, Homosexuals, Jews, Mentally ill, Negroes, Poles, Prostitutes, Russians, Serbs, Socialists, Spanish Republicans, Trade Unionists, Ukrainians and Yugoslavs. Once the Warsaw Ghetto was built and all the Jews were forced into the “cage”, Sendler could no longer help them without getting caught. Then she saw children inside unacceptable conditions. So she joined an underground organization of Poland is resistance. The resistance called the Zegota, consisted mostly of men and Irena was one of the first people to join. Irena Sendler also wanted to help because she knew the fate of the people inside; death. What methods did Irena use to try to effect change? Sendler’s first effort to help the Jews was to give them shelter and food. Since she was in the Warsaw Social Welfare Department, she passed out canteens for water. However, for the needy, she put medicine, money and clothing inside. Sendler’s second effect was to join the Zegota, a Council to Aid Jew and directed all efforts to get the young children out, of the enclosed area. Sendler’s most successful effort was becoming a “nurse” at the Ghetto, from there she brought food, clothing and medicine for the people. When she realized that people were still dying, she began to smuggle them out, using an ambulance, potato sacks, coffins, tool bags and on occasion she would take the children into a church with two exits. Once they were out of the ghetto, she provided…

war efforts, especially for her role in Żegota where she was responsible for the children’s section.3 She began working as a social worker at the onset of World War Two, which two years later proved to be a substantial benefit.3 An outbreak of the typhus disease, with an average of 750 Jews dying in the Warsaw Ghetto per day, resulted in the Germans becoming apprehensive about whether it would be transmitted further into Warsaw.8,14 Thus, in efforts to reduce the advancement of the disease, the…

Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse, humanitarian, and social worker who served in the Polish Underground during World War II in Warsaw. The German had already taken over Warsaw at the time. Irena was the head of the children's section of Zegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews which was active from 1942 to 1945. Assisted by some two dozen other Zegota members, Sendler smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and…

from the University of Warsaw for three years. When She Started Helping People As early as 1939, at the time the Germans invaded Warsaw, Irena started helping Jews by offering them food and shelter. When the Warsaw ghetto started in 1940 Irena could no longer help isolated Jews. When the Warsaw ghetto was formed Irena started helping orphan jews. What She Did to Help Irena used papers as a Polish social worker and papers from a worker of the Contagious Disease Department to enter the…

(USHMM) Zegota (code name for Rada Pomocy Zydom, the Council of Aid to Jews) was a rescue group that was created in occupied Poland. It took care of thousands of Jews that were trying to survive and stay safe in hiding, the group helped with the conservation and medical care of the hiding Jews, even though there were death penalties on Poles who were to help aid Jews. Zegota successfully put thousands of Jewish children in safe houses, orphanages, and convents. One main activist was Irena…

Irena started helping as soon as she could. Being part of the Warsaw’s Social Welfare Department allowed her to deliver food, water, and money to the people in the Warsaw Ghetto. Eventually, she became the head of Zegota’s children department. During Irena’s time at Zegota, she saved more than 2,500 children. Not only did she save the children, but she provided a house for them to stay in along with new names. Irena wanted to reconnect the children with their families after the war, so she took…

water, medicine, money, and false documents to be distributed to Jewish families in the ghetto. She even wore the Star of David while inside of the ghetto to show solidarity with the Jews. In 1942, as conditions worsened and liquidation of the ghetto was around the corner, Sendler wanted to do something to help the Jews within the ghetto, so she decided to join Zegota, the Polish underground resistance that fought to help Jews. The organization was funded by the Polish government-in-exile based…

offered her mother help in paying for Irena education. Sendler studied polish literature at Warsaw University. She married Mieczyslaw sendler in 1931,but got a divorced after she married Stefan Zgrzembski, they had 3 kids and later got a divorced. On May 12,2008 Irena died at Warsaw poland at the age of 98. In 1940 the Warsaw Ghetto was formed about 450,000 people were forced into that area. In 1942 the Nazis herder hundreds to thousands of Jews into a 16-block area. Irena was so appalled to…

While some chose to stand by and be spectators of the horrid events happening in the Holocaust, others decided to acknowledge the fact that innocent people were being murdered. Irena Sendler was a part of the numerous resistance efforts against the Nazis. Generally, resistance efforts consisted of hiding people in homes, putting up anti-Nazi propaganda, and so on. Irena Sendler stands out among the rest because of her willingness to help others, her endeavor to smuggle children into freedom, and…

Irena was arrested, tortured, and imprisoned by the Gestapo and later ended up in the Pawiak Prison. She was finally rescued at the last minute when some of the Zegota members bribed the Gestapo to release her. Even though she had escaped prison and was believed to have been executed she spent the remainder of the war in hiding running from the Nazis. When the war was over she dug up the jars and tried to track down the children to reunite them with their families. She soon discovered that most…