They wanted names but Irena Sendler had 2,500 reasons to stay silent. The Gestapo tortured this Polish social worker until her legs and feet were nothing but broken bone. Hour after hour, they demanded she reveal her network - the people who'd helped her smuggle Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. Irena had become a master of impossible rescues. She'd forge medical papers that fooled Nazi inspectors, sneak babies out in toolboxes and sacks, even sedate children to keep them quiet through checkpoints. Over 2,500 kids owed their lives to her courage. She carefully wrote down every child's name and identity, then buried those papers in jars under a tree. She never stopped believing those children would survive and want to find their families again. Even facing death, even with her body shattered, she said nothing. The Gestapo sentenced her to die and somehow, she escaped. Irena Sendler's weapon of choice? A mother's heart and a warrior's will.
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They wanted names but Irena Sendler had 2,500 reasons to stay silent.
The Gestapo tortured this Polish social worker until her legs and feet were nothing but broken bone. Hour after hour, they demanded she reveal her network - the people who'd helped her smuggle Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.
Irena had become a master of impossible rescues. She'd forge medical papers that fooled Nazi inspectors, sneak babies out in toolboxes and sacks, even sedate children to keep them quiet through checkpoints. Over 2,500 kids owed their lives to her courage.
She carefully wrote down every child's name and identity, then buried those papers in jars under a tree. She never stopped believing those children would survive and want to find their families again.
Even facing death, even with her body shattered, she said nothing. The Gestapo sentenced her to die and somehow, she escaped.
Irena Sendler's weapon of choice? A mother's heart and a warrior's will.
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