Irena Sendler: People In The Warsaw Ghetto

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Introduction Over four hundred thousand Jewish women, children, and men were all put into a small city with little to no food. That is a little less than double the number of people that live in Boise, Idaho. During World War Two the Germans invaded Poland. They put all the Jews into a small village called the Warsaw Ghetto as a waiting place to be put into the Concentration Camps. Irena Sendler saw how the Jews were being treated in the Ghetto and wanted to put a stop to the horrible treatment. As a result she saved over twenty-five hundred children and families.

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Irena Sendler was born in Poland on February 15, 1910. She was the only child in her family. Her family was in the Polish Socialist Party. The people in the Socialist Party were looked down upon by most people because they often by most people. She was greatly influenced by her father, Stanisław …show more content…
She was arrested and sentenced to death because of treason. She was taken to the Gestapo Headquarters in Poland. When she was there she was tortured immensely. They broke both her arms and her legs in several spots and broke other bones. While they were driving Irena to her execution there was a sack of money from Zegota to bail her out . They knocked Irena unconscious and threw her on the side of the street. Irena said she would do that a thousand times than not save the kids. She was crippled for life because of the damage by the torturers.("I'm no Hero").
Ficowicha was one child she saved from the Warsaw Ghetto. Irena saved her by putting her into a carpenter box when she was just a baby. They drugged her to prevent her from crying so they would not catch her. Before they gave her to the new family they engraved her name into a silver spoon. They gave her to a catholic family to hide her identity as a Jew. She still has the silver spoon in a blue box on her night stand next to a picture of her husband. ("Holocaust

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