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BBC NEWS | Europe | Pole who saved ghetto Jews dies

MALIBU45 rated 5 months ago
Pole who saved ghetto Jews dies... The death of a Polish woman who almost certainly saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II has been announced. Irena Sendlerowa organised the rescue of the children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation. She died in a Warsaw...

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funkymonkey01 rated 5 months ago
very brave woman
MALIBU45 rated 5 months ago
Pole who saved ghetto Jews dies... The death of a Polish woman who almost certainly saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II has been announced. Irena Sendlerowa organised the rescue of the children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation. She died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98, her daughter said. After Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, she took great risks to help Polish Jews held by the Nazis - an act that was punishable by death.