Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska) was a Polish nurse, social worker, and resistance hero whose quiet determination during World War II saved over 2,500 Jewish children from the horrors of the Holocaust. Born on February 15, 1910, in Warsaw, Poland, she grew up in Otwock, a town with a vibrant Jewish community, where her father, Dr. Stanisław Krzyżanowski, a physician and social activist, ran a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. He instilled in her a profound sense of compassion, treating Jewish patients shunned by others—even contracting typhus himself in 1917 while caring for them, which led to his death when Irena was just 7. This early lesson shaped her lifelong belief: “I was raised to believe that the question of religion, nation, [or] belonging to any race is of no importance—it’s a human being that matters!”
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