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She Buried Children's Real Names in Glass Jars
In occupied Warsaw, a 32-year-old social worker named Irena Sendler walked into the sealed ghetto with a pass to check for typhus, and walked out with children. Working with the underground Council to Aid Jews, Zegota, she and a network of colleagues hid Jewish children with Polish families, in orphanages and in convents under new names. Their real names were written on thin strips of paper and hidden in glass jars, so that one day they could be given back. In October 1943 the Gestapo arrested her. She was beaten and sentenced to death, and she never gave up the names. This is her documented…
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