Stories of children saved by Irena Sendler. Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Story of Irina Sendler

Back in 2010, I was a rare “dense ignoramus” and a stupid, gullible, deschizoid, over-aged youth.
That's why I published this:

And now, if you please, a critique of this matter:

Irina Sandler: true or false?

“Recently, on the Internet, all sorts of dense ignoramuses have been actively dragging from page to page a photo of a pretty old woman with the following heart-warming text: “Look at this woman - and remember her forever!” Recently, at the age of 98, a woman named Irena Sandler died. During the Second World War, World War Irena received permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumber. She had “ulterior motives” for this. Being German, she knew about the Nazi plans for the Jews. In the bottom of her tool bag, she began carrying children out of the ghetto, and in In the back of the truck she had a bag for older children. There she also carried a dog, which she trained to bark when the German guards let the car in and out through the ghetto gates. The soldiers, naturally, did not want to mess with the dog, and its barking covered up the sounds that could publish children. During this activity, Irena managed to take 2,500 children out of the ghetto and thereby save 2,500 children. She was caught; the Nazis broke her legs and arms, and severely beat her. Irena kept a record of the names of all the children she carried out, she kept the lists in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to find all possible surviving parents and reunite families. But most of them ended their lives in gas chambers. Last year, Irena Sandler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not elected... I am making my small contribution by forwarding this letter to you. Help us spread it around the world."...

Having brushed away an uninvited tear, I still could not resist the following non-politically kosher comment: What a blatant and shameless lie! Guys, at least look at what you sign up for! 2,500 Jewish children carried out at the bottom of a shopping bag is not even “bullshit”, it is, to put it in fascist language, some kind of fucking schwantz! Can you even imagine such a quantity?! The Warsaw ghetto, as we know, lasted just over 500 days. It turns out that every day the brave plumber Sandler, taking advantage of the awe of the German machine gunners before the yapping mongrel, carried 5 children on her! But these are not pieces of soap that can be stuffed into pockets and carried anywhere without getting caught (by the way, after the war the Zionists tried to assure the whole world that soap in Germany was made from Jews. A little later, however, they admitted that they were joking...) Agree, it’s some kind of strange ghetto, from which you can wander back and forth, leading whole crowds of juvenile prisoners with you. Was there a passageway there? And then, where did this kind Nobel soul put so many lucky ones? Did she hand it over to her guardians from the German authorities? The parents were no longer there by that time, as is clear from the text - they were poisoned “in gas chambers”... Now pay attention! To date, there is not a single proof of the killing of Jews with gas. It’s not for nothing that such a well-known falsifier of history as Spielberg, in his widely publicized “Schindler’s List” (if you want to win an Oscar, make a film about the Holocaust!) never dared to show the “gassing action”. Even today, this is an extremely costly and dangerous (primarily for the executioners themselves) procedure. When in one of the American states they decided to kill a criminal in this way, they had to evacuate the entire prison and the surrounding streets... And they are trying to assure us that the Germans, experiencing a colossal need for labor (in Auschwitz, for example, they produced strategically important rubber ) 6 million people were holocated through gas chambers. As the Jews themselves say: Don’t make fun of my slippers!..

“No, just look at him! - some overly impressionable reader will exclaim - There is nothing sacred for anti-Semitic cattle! And he will be right. Because I decided not to dwell on this remark, but to introduce you to even more interesting facts regarding one of the most unscrupulous and inhumane scams of the 20th century. Anticipating accusations of anti-Semitism, fascism and cannibalism (which for burry liars and chatterboxes are, in fact, the same thing), I note that I have nothing against Jews and attributing all these mortal sins to me is as wrong as trying to equalize the Zionists (who organized a couple with the Nazis, the Holocaust) and ordinary Jews who became victims of this monstrous gesheft on blood. I’m just pretty good at history and I would like you to know it just as well...

So, it is still generally accepted in world historiography that the initiators of the bloodiest massacre that claimed the lives of tens of millions of people around the world were the National Socialists, led by the possessed Fuhrer. All this is true, but only partly. The Zionist behind the scenes carefully hides the fact that Hitler was just a puppet in Jewish hands and clearly carried out the instructions given to him from above. Those who conceived and paid for the incitement of the Second World War have been blackmailing the rest of humanity for several decades with the so-called. “Holocaust” - a crime of which they themselves are the authors and performers! Truly, there is no limit to the impudence of the Jews!.. What really happened?..

In the early 30s, immediately after Rothschild’s emissary Trotsky was thrown out of the USSR, which meant the country’s turn towards independence from the international financial kagal, Jewish bankers brought Adolf Hitler to power in Germany (and you seriously believe that the rogue, who often did not have enough money to pay for a glass of beer in a Munich bar, could afford to conduct massive election campaigns and propaganda?) helped him rearm the German army and throw it at the Soviet Union. During this “Drang nach Osten” a huge number of goyim of different nationalities died (which is always welcomed by the Jews) as well as a number of Jews who were useless for Zion. Actually, it was the Jewish elite (and not the fascists, as many people think) who came up with the idea of exterminating part of the Jewish people so that the rest, fearful, would begin to hastily move to Palestine. The strategy of these scoundrels was to incite Hitler to increasingly harsh anti-Semitic measures to oppress the Jews. On the one hand, this pushed German Jews to emigrate to Palestine, on the other hand, the Zionists argued to the governments of the Western powers the need to create their own national home for the Jews. The propaganda of “horrors” about the extermination of Jews, which began in 1942, was aimed at the same thing. So it was the Zionists, and not Hitler, who came up with the idea of driving Jews into concentration camps; it was the Zionists, and not Hitler, who robbed the unfortunate people doomed to death to the last thread... The results of this bloody scam were not long in coming. Immediately after the end of World War II, a new Jewish state was created in the original Arab territories - Israel...

The German writer Henneke Kardel in his book: “Adolf Hitler - Founder of Israel” writes about one of the main organizers of the Holocaust: “Comrades in the SS were surprised how this Jew Eichmann with a pronounced Semitic nose got into their circle. “He has the key to the synagogue sticking out in the middle of his face,” they said, but they were cut off: “Be silent! Fuhrer's order! Everyone understood that the Fuhrer is always right, and Eichmann began his activities in the Berlin bureau, for which his defender Servatius, at the trial in Jerusalem in the early 60s, demanded an order for him, since Eichmann helped Jews populate Palestine...” A little later, the Israelis secret services caught the legendary exterminator of Jews - Adolf Eichmann (he knew too much about the Fuhrer's behind-the-scenes agreements with the Zionists), tried him and hanged him in Israel. They say that Eichmann’s last words on the scaffold were: “Well, hang, hang... There will be one less Jew...”

Today, not a single serious historian will undertake to deny the fact that the so-called. Jews “owe” the “Holocaust” and “pogroms” exclusively to the Jews (remember the famous: “because of you, the Jews, the Jews don’t like us!”) It has long been known, for example, that there were clear agreements between the fascists and the Zionists regarding the Jewish population of Germany. Hitler did not touch a single Jew without consulting the Jewish elite. Only those who were of no interest to the Zionists were destroyed. Those who were richer, under the protection of SS men, went to Europe and Palestine. The poor were driven straight to concentration camps. One of the main ideologists of Zionism, Chaim Weizmann, directly said: “the old Jews are just dust, economic and spiritual dust in a cruel world, and therefore must disappear”... Researchers are amazed by the very confidence of the forecast: after all, in 1937, when this statement was made, Not a single Jew died at the hands of the Nazis. Nevertheless, Weizmann confidently predicted the extermination of the Jews, which actually began only five years later...

Where does such stiff-neckedness towards one’s own people come from? The fact is that the calls of the Zionists to master the “heritage of their ancestors” remained a voice crying in the desert, because Palestine was then a wild wilderness to which none of the Jews wanted to go. Try to force some “Russian writer” Katz or “German lawyer” Gotz to leave their homes and go a thousand kilometers away to build kibbutzim. Yes, he will send you to hell and that will all end. A Jewish worker and a collective farmer is just some kind of anecdote... And then the leadership of Zion drew up a plan for the forced resettlement of their European fellow tribesmen to the “Promised Land”. Theodor Herzl, when asked what could force Jews to leave their countries and found a Jewish state, answered quite categorically: “Anti-Semites!” And they did not fail to appear! The smart-ass Jews began to drive Jews into Israel with the help of the Nazis. Those who did not want to leave Europe were considered by the Zionists as traitors - apostates and were subject to destruction. When the same Chaim Weizmann, who later became the first president of Israel, was asked to ransom the Jews in German concentration camps, he cynically replied: “All these Jews are not worth one Palestinian cow”... So “Holocaust” (which in Hebrew means burnt offering) is nothing more than the inhuman sacrifice by the leaders of Zionism of hundreds of thousands of sick, poor and defenseless Jews (women, old people, children...) on the altar of the “great goal” - the construction of the state of Israel...

Jewish writer Hana Arend admitted: “In general, the role of Zionist leaders in the destruction of their own people is for us, undoubtedly, the darkest chapter in this whole ugly story. Both in Europe captured by the Wehrmacht and in the occupied part of the USSR, the Nazis could count on their Jewish assistants to compile lists of persons and an inventory of property, obtain money for deportation and destruction of “human ballast”, register vacated apartments and provide police to help seize Jews and stuff them into trains...” The fact that in the death camps the Jewish Sonderkommandos themselves provided direct assistance in the extermination of victims is a long-known fact, it is fully confirmed by witnesses:

“Among the 13 works that I presented at the exhibition at the Palace of Arts in Minsk in 1980,” recalls former prisoner of fascist concentration camps, artist M. A. Savitsky, “there was one called “Summer Theater.” - That’s what the fascists, whose humor was unique and cynical, called extermination after the execution of the corpses of their victims in open pits... In the picture, on both sides of the bulldozer, which shovels the bodies of the killed and tortured into the pit for burning, I painted two black figures. On the one hand, this is an SS man with a machine gun, on the other, a prisoner with the Star of David on his chest. A huge scandal erupted over this second figure. According to some hotheads, it turned out that I had insulted the Jews with this picture. But I knew what I was writing. After all, it is a fact that among the camp authorities, as well as in the teams that burned the corpses, there were many Jews. I was told that this was a lie. I stood my ground. Then the Minister of Culture was hastily sent to one of the extermination camps in Poland. They showed him the documents and confirmed that yes, that was the case. Nevertheless, the scandal grew. They demanded that if not the painting itself, then the sign from the prisoner’s chest be removed... Real terror began against me. Strangers repeatedly called home: at night, early in the morning... with threats: “You are no longer a tenant, we will kill you and destroy your works”... Then my son and I discovered that out of thirteen works, at least eight were damaged by hand blows, fists... They wrote to the UN, UNESCO, and the New York Times. They tirelessly talked about the “anti-Semitic” work of Svoboda and Voice of America, not counting other echoes. They rushed around with many letters, even addressed to Brezhnev... I signed that I had “acquainted myself”, disdaining to read them. Because I was deeply convinced: there was not a drop of lies in any of my paintings...”

It is impossible not to pay attention to one more surprising circumstance, noted by many researchers: as we are assured, millions of Jews died, however, for some reason there were no famous people among them. With the exception of the writer and teacher Janusz Korczak, who was killed in Treblinka, and the historian Semyon Dubnov, who died at the age of 81 in the Riga ghetto, it is difficult to name any prominent representative of Jewry who perished under the rule of the Nazis: all of them either left the occupied territory, or by some “miracle” "survived the Nazi clutches. Can anyone name prominent figures in Jewish religion, culture or politics, not to mention Jewish business, who fell victims of the notorious Holocaust. Amazing: “six million victims” - and not a single celebrity!..

Now let's touch on the quantitative indicators of the Holocaust. Where did this figure of 6 million even come from? Here is what historian and scholar Jürgen Graf writes about this: “Our amazement knows no bounds if we turn to the newspaper American Jews, where the “Holocaust” is mentioned in the issue of October 31, 1919: the author of the article talks about the extermination “ six million Jewish men, women and children." Where and how that “Holocaust” was carried out cannot be understood from the crazy writings in the newspaper, but the number 6 million is mentioned 7 times... But where is the answer to why this figure is absolutely necessary: it is taken from antiquity, this sacred number was borrowed by crazy politicians from Talmud... It is clear that having determined the magic figure, the Zionists began to “fill it with real content.” In his book “The Controversy over Zion,” Douglas Reed describes the technology of such manipulations: “The Jews were singled out from the total mass of Hitler’s victims and their number was arbitrarily inflated from day to day: the burning of unwanted literature in Germany turned into the “burning of Jewish literature”; concentration camps in which 90% of the prisoners were Germans turned into “concentration camps for Jews”; in a wartime report about the murder of “150,000 Belarusians, Ukrainians and Jews” in German-occupied areas, this phrase was changed to “150,000 Jews”, etc. endlessly...

Back in the 19th century, the famous Russian writer Nikolai Leskov (author of the famous “Lefty”) wrote a story with the telling title “The Jewish Somersault College,” which was about the tricks that Jews then resorted to in order to avoid military service. The Zionists are still engaged in exactly the same kind of cheating, only with numbers. Immediately after the war, Jewish propaganda stated that “5 million human beings were killed in Auschwitz.” How many of these “human beings” were Jews was not said at first. The fact is that the Germans did not separate prisoners based on nationality. The card indexes that have survived to this day indicated which country the prisoners came from, their names and the total number. For example, prisoners from the Soviet-German front were called Russians, although among them there were Ukrainians, Belarusians, and representatives of other nationalities inhabiting the Soviet Union. How the Jews subsequently managed to determine that all those killed in Auschwitz were Jews still remains a mystery. But for Jews nothing is impossible... The surviving documents also make it possible to fairly accurately determine the total number of prisoners in the same Auschwitz. For example, in September 1942 there were about 4 thousand prisoners in the camp, and by September 1943 their number had grown to 20 thousand people. As we can see, we are not talking about any millions here. And a small Polish village could not accommodate so many people!..

It must be said that with attempts at a scientific and documentary approach to the study of the Holocaust, the number of its victims has consistently decreased. Here's how these numbers changed as scientists and researchers, including Jewish ones, exposed the false data of Zionist swindlers about the victims of concentration camps: 9.0 million people. - according to the film “Kristallnacht”; 8.0 million people - according to a report from the French war crimes office; 7.0 million people - according to the testimony of prisoner Rafail Feidelson; 6.0 million people - according to the Jewish publisher Tiberius Kremer; 5.0 million people - according to the newspaper “Le Monde” dated April 20, 1978; 4.0 million people - according to the Nuremberg Tribunal; 3.0 million people - according to a statement by Israeli Holocaust expert Yehuda Bauer in 1982; 2.0 million people - according to the “confession” of SS man Peri Broad; 1.0 million people - according to a statement by Raoul Hilberg; 500 thousand people - according to the statement of Zh.K. Pressak in 1994... As we see, the number of victims of the Jewish catastrophe is catastrophically decreasing over time. But according to the Zionist laws of mathematics, if you subtract 5.5 million from 6 million, 6 million still remain...

“What about Babi Yar?” - you ask? In this ravine alone, according to official historians, over 150 thousand Jews were exterminated... Well, it depends on which side you look at, my dear reader. There is no documentary evidence or material evidence of the massacres at Babi Yar. Until now, not a single forensic examination has been carried out there! The Soviet underground, who had radio transmitters at their disposal and regularly reported to the “Mainland” about everything that was happening in Kyiv, did not mention the executions at Babi Yar. At the same time, it is known for certain that over... 150 thousand people were evacuated from Kyiv in the summer of 1941 to the east - the entire then Jewish population of the city. That is why Kyiv, in fact, did not defend itself - the Jewish authorities were busy with their evacuation. The question: where did the additional 150 thousand Jews come from, supposedly exterminated by the Germans at Babi Yar? Should probably be considered anti-Semitic?.. By the way, the first notoriety of the Babi Yar tract came from the ritual murder on Easter 1911 of the Orthodox boy Andrei Yushchinsky, whose body was completely drained of blood... Investigators found 47 terrible puncture wounds on the body of the high school student... The case of the Jew Beilis, accused of committing this savage crime, shocked the whole of Russia at that time. But today few people know about this...

The most immutable fact of the so-called. The Holocaust is that so far not a single document, order or directive has been found confirming that it actually happened and that the Germans actually planned the mass extermination of Jews! This became a real headache for Zionist propaganda. “Do not forget,” writes Holocaust researcher Germar Rudolf, “the crime in question is considered the largest genocide in the entire history of mankind. Its victims in three years were allegedly over six million people, it covered almost the entire European continent and involved countless institutions and small employees: some built gas chambers, some delivered gas cylinders, some unloaded corpses, someone took them to crematoriums, someone raked out the ashes... And all this huge and complexly organized work does not leave the slightest trace in the official papers... We can only assume one thing: either meticulous German bureaucrats, accustomed to recording their every step on paper, suddenly , as if by magic they had mastered the art of telepathy, or the Holocaust, in the form in which the Zionists portray it to us, did not happen..."

Another big problem for official historiography is the lack of mass graves near the so-called. "death camps". At first, the Zionists babbled something about the destruction of corpses in crematoria, but after it became clear that it was simply impossible to burn such a number of Jews in the camp ovens (even if the crematoria worked 25 hours a day and disposed of a hundred corpses per minute), the Zionists declared that the Nazis burned people in the open air too... They combined business with pleasure, so to speak... Fate once brought me to India, where in the holy city of Varanasi I had the opportunity to observe the process of cremation of dead Hindus. So, I can testify that it is not so easy to burn a human corpse. It's not like you're going to burn a mosquito with a lighter. This process is very labor-intensive and lengthy. As a local guide told me, one corpse takes up to 200 kilograms of wood, the body burns for at least two hours and does not burn out completely. Hindus throw its charred parts into the sacred waters of the Ganges, and where did the Nazis put the “waste of their production” if they still cannot find a single burnt fragment either on the territory of the concentration camps or in the surrounding area?..

Now let us, with the help of Germar Rudolf and his suppressed Lectures on the Holocaust, list a number of parameters that the legendary pyres for burning corpses should have had according to the testimony of “Holocaust survivors.” For example, let’s take the Nazi “extermination camp” Treblinka: “The number of corpses (killed Jews) is 870,000; duration of cremations - April-June 1943 (122 days); number of corpses per day - 7,250; number of cremation grates - 2; number of corpses per grid per day 3.625 = 163.125 kg; the amount of firewood per grate per day is 570,937.5 kg; the height of the stack of corpses and firewood is 26.4 m (a nine-story building!); the total amount of firewood required is 137,025,000 kg... According to the same witnesses, the firewood was extracted by one team of lumberjacks, consisting of 25 people. A little arithmetic. This crew would have to work hard for 122 days straight, felling 1,148 tons of trees, sawing them into logs and transporting them to the camp. This means at least 760 trees per day, or about 30 trees per brother per day... This also means that about 280 hectares of forest (2.8 km²) would have to be cleared. However, aerial photographs of Treblinka taken by Allied aircraft at the time show no sign of anything like this. There are also no giant mountains of ash that such cremations would leave behind. If the ashes were evenly distributed over the territory of the camp where all this supposedly happened, then the entire area would rise by almost four meters! Nor should one assume that this method of cremation would completely turn all corpses into ashes. There would have been many bone fragments and charred corpse parts left behind, as well as the remains of firewood and charcoal - countless millions of such fragments. But they are not there!”...

Once again, like any normal person, I deeply regret the fact that millions of people (including Jews) died during the Second World War. I never divided these unfortunates according to nationality. But those who today are trying to make up their dirty financial dealings on the blood of innocent victims, singling them out as a separate caste and inventing monstrous fables about the Holocaust, cause me contempt. In this regard, the questions are: when the Zionists install cubes in the center of Berlin listing all the victims of the Holocaust, demanding repentance and money from the Germans (otherwise, why bother?) are they thereby inciting ethnic hatred? “No,” you say. Then why, when we remember that the Gulag was organized by ethnic Jews Bronstein, Kogan, Frenkel, they immediately shout at us about “Russian fascism” that is “raising its head”? How are the Jewish commissars who unleashed the Red Terror in Russia and killed millions of Russian people different from the SS men who liquidated Jews in concentration camps? If the murder of Jews in a gas chamber is considered today the crown of evil, then can the atomic bombing of Japanese cities be considered as such? Total extermination of the civilian population of Dresden by Allied aircraft? Siege of Leningrad? Why doesn't anyone raise their voice in defense of these victims of genocide? Why has no reliable evidence of the existence of gas chambers been presented yet? (Except for the unfounded assertion that “they were”). Where are the documents (at least one!) signed by Hitler, on the basis of which the decision was made on the so-called. "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"? Why is there not a single mention of the Holocaust in Winston Churchill's famous three-volume book on World War II? Why are the numbers of Holocaust victims constantly “dancing”? And finally, why are people who are trying to answer all these questions persecuted (including criminally)? What kind of truth about the Holocaust is this that needs to be defended with prison terms?..

But let’s continue... In his book “The Myth of the Holocaust,” Swiss scholar Jürgen Graf writes: “You will be extremely surprised, but the entire history of the Holocaust is based on the testimony of less than two dozen main witnesses! His other “victims” don’t even claim to be eyewitnesses; they heard about the gas chambers from second and third parties... The only thing that is indisputable is that there are genuine photographs of dead and living skeletons in German concentration camps, taken after their liberation by Allied troops. But they in no way serve as evidence of the systematic extermination of Jews, since even the official point of view of historians is that these corpses are victims of epidemics that spread widely in the last months of the war, which plunged everything into chaos. Argument: I saw it myself in the movies, on television! - is capable of making an impression on a simple, trusting soul. All films about the extermination of Jews - "The Holocaust", "Shoah", "Schindler's List" - appeared many years after the end of the war and therefore, naturally, do not have any evidentiary value. It is no coincidence that such a craft as “Schindler’s List” was shot on black and white film. In this way they try to create the impression on an uneducated viewer that this is a documentary film."

So, it turned out that there is no real evidence that the Nazis used gas to kill people. The lie rests only on a few Jewish witnesses, and the world knows what kind of “truth-tellers” they are. Among the more than 150,000 documents that the punctual Germans kept day after day in Auschwitz, there is not a single mention of execution in the gas chambers (believe me, if there was such a document, the Jews would have long been running around with it on all TV channels, like with a written bag) . And what is completely strange is that there is not a single autopsy report on the bodies of the victims that would confirm death from gas! Often Jews refer to the testimony of the Nazis themselves, allegedly confirming mass murder. But how were these “confessions” obtained? Let us turn to the fate of the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hess. After the war, he hid in a peasant's house, but in March 1946 he was arrested by the British. He was tortured by a Jew, Sergeant Bernard Clark. In his book Legions of Death, Rupert Butler describes this “conversation” as follows: “Hess screamed at the sight of the British uniform alone. "What is your name?" - Clark growled, and every time “Franz Long” (the name of the peasant with whom Hess was hiding) sounded in response, Clark’s fist fell on the interrogated person’s face. From the fourth interrogation, Hess identified himself. Then he was stripped naked and stretched out on a slaughterhouse, where Clark did such things to him that the screams and blows merged into one cacophony and it seemed there would be no end... It took three days for Hess to begin to say what they demanded of him." Hess himself later, shortly before his execution, admitted: “Yes, of course, I signed a statement that I killed 2.5 million Jews. I could just as well say that there were 5 million of these Jews. There are ways by which any confession can be obtained, regardless of whether it is true or not."

As another example, take the testimony of Franz Ziereis, the last commandant of the Mauthausen camp, who was wounded three times in the stomach, after which he, bleeding, instead of being sent to the hospital, was interrogated by a former prisoner of Mauthausen, Hans Marsalek. In his “confession,” the dying Ziereis allegedly stated the following: “SS Gruppenführer Glück gave the order to consider weak prisoners as sick and to kill them with gas in a large installation. About 1.5 million prisoners were killed there. The site in question is called Hartheim, and it is located ten kilometers towards Passau.” Would anyone take seriously such a “confession” from a mortally wounded man who is bleeding and not only receives no help, but is also being interrogated by one of his former prisoners? By the way, as researchers found out, the room in Hartheim Castle, which allegedly was the gas chamber, has an area of approximately 26 square meters. m. And they want to make us believe that one and a half million people were killed in a tiny room in the castle?..

And here is what honest and decent people said during interrogations (although it would seem that they had a lot of good reasons, to put it mildly, to dislike the Germans). From the testimony of Emil Behr, a prisoner of one of the so-called. “death camps”: “After the investigators told me that experiments were carried out on women in the 10th block, I must say that I did not know this... In the camp they said that the political department carried out executions. But I don’t know anything more specific about this... I definitely saw how the SS treated prisoners poorly... However, I cannot remember obvious murders. Also, I do not know of individual cases in which prisoners died after being beaten by the SS... I have never seen crematoria or gas chambers. I also don’t know which of the SS men worked there”... Austrian Maria Fanherwaarden was interned in Auschwitz in 1942 for having sex with a Polish prisoner. Maria confirmed that Auschwitz was not a resort. She witnessed the death of many prisoners from diseases, especially typhus, some even committed suicide. But she saw no evidence of massacres, gassings, or execution of any extermination plan...

“During the preparation for the criminal trial of the former Auschwitz police investigator Boger,” writes Germar Rudolf in his book “Lectures on the Holocaust,” a German Jew, Marila Rosenthal, who worked as his secretary, was interrogated. During Rosenthal's interrogation, it was discovered that she could not corroborate the accusations made against her former boss, as well as general allegations of atrocities allegedly committed at Auschwitz. Among other things, Rosenthal's testimony included statements about her good relationship with her former boss and the general work atmosphere: “Boger was polite to me, and I cannot complain about him as far as I am concerned. It even got to the point that he began regularly handing me some of his food on plates, under the pretext that I had to wash them. In addition, he organized the transfer of clothes to me from the Birkenau camp... He was very polite to other Jewish prisoners who worked in the political department, and we Jews loved him very much. I also remember that Boger did not feel much hatred for Jews... I can’t say anything bad about Boger as far as I and other prisoners are concerned.” What, in my opinion, is most striking is that at this trial, Rosenthal’s testimony was accepted by the court not as exculpatory, but as incriminating evidence! As the judge said, the atrocities committed at Auschwitz were so terrible that the witness, Marila Rosenthal, suffered mental trauma - so severe that she lost all memories of these very atrocities...”

Now we move on to the testimony, in fact, of the “miraculously saved victims of Nazism” themselves, and the material collected by the same Rudolf will help us in this: “The Jew Roegner (one of the main witnesses of the Holocaust) declares that one day, while at the platform of Birkenau, he became witness the following scene: “I continued to remain behind the tree and watched what was happening. Then I saw Boger step aside with a Jewish girl of about fifteen years old who had just arrived with the last transport. When the policeman and the girl were about one hundred and fifty meters away from his other colleagues, Boger said something to the little girl and immediately afterwards hit her hard, causing her to fall unconscious to the ground. I couldn't make out what Boger said to the girl, but I can assume that he wanted to use her for sexual purposes. After the girl fell unconscious, Boger could no longer satisfy his lustful desires, because in the meantime the detachment carrying out the selection was approaching, and Boger was afraid of being seen. He tore some of the clothes off the girl's body and cut off some of it with a pocket knife... The girl was naked down to her underwear and stockings... Then he pulled out his gun and shot the girl in the left and right breasts. After that, he inserted the barrel of the gun into the girl’s genitals and fired one more time.”

In response to the remark of the investigator (who was clearly not so stupid) that because of the shots, Boger’s actions could not go unnoticed, Rögner stated that in Birkenau he heard shots “around the clock, in all hours of the day and night, so this murder no one simply paid attention... No one paid attention to the girl’s body either.” Actually, this is real pornography, sadomasochism. But how can you prove that this is a lie? It’s very simple: there were no trees near the Birkenau platform for Rögner to hide behind... Rögner then stated that he had witnessed thirty other murders committed by the same Boger in a similar or even more sadistic manner. He also claimed to have seen Boger torture people "unnoticed, through a keyhole or window." This is already some kind of “Behind the Glass”! Did the prisoner Rögner have no other business than to keep an eye on Boger through the keyhole?.. It seems that he did not... But here is another scene described by Rögner, which has become a real classic: “After the arrival of the next batch of prisoners at Auschwitz, Boger took one of the children lying on the floor, took off his diapers so that he was completely naked, grabbed him by the legs and began to hit his head on the iron edge of the freight car - at first weakly, and then harder and harder, until his head was was completely crushed. Then he twisted the arms and legs of the now dead child and threw him away”... Well, at least one mentally abnormal, pathological liar out of five million “Holocaust survivors” we have identified”...

Irena Sendler, or Irena Sendlerova (née Krzyzanowska), is a resistance movement activist from Poland who saved more than 2.5 thousand children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. her life seems like something unreal, coming to us from the pages of books or movie screens, but this brave woman really did what she did. Each time, taking or leading a child out of the ghetto, she risked her own life and the lives of her loved ones, but still she never backed down, was not afraid, giving thousands of innocent children a ticket to life.

Irena was born on February 15, 1910 in Warsaw in the family of Stanislaw Krzyzanowski (1877-1917) and Janina Karolina Grzybowska (1885-1944). Before the birth of his daughter, Stanislav took an active part in underground activities during the revolution of 1905, he was a member of the PPS (Polish Socialist Party), and by profession he was a doctor. Krzyzanowski treated mainly poor Jews, whom other doctors simply refused to help. As a result, in 1917, he died of typhus, which he contracted from his patients. After his death, the Jewish community, which highly valued the services of Dr. Krzyzanowski, decided to help his family by offering to pay for Irena’s education until she came of age - 18 years of age. The girl’s mother refused to take their money, because she understood how hard life was for many of her husband’s patients, and she told this story to her daughter. Perhaps this is how gratitude and love for these people settled in the girl’s heart, who in the future gave life to thousands of children.

Irena Sendler

After graduating from school, Irena entered the University of Warsaw to study Polish literature. Then, while studying at the university, she joined the Polish Socialist Party, as she wanted to continue the work of her father. In pre-war Poland, prejudice against Jews was quite widespread, but many Poles did not support them and opposed racial prejudice. For example, during Irena’s studies at the University of Warsaw, there were special “benches for Jews” in its lecture halls; they were installed for Jewish students, and they were located in the last rows of university classrooms, they were also called the “bench ghetto.” Very often, Irena Sendler, with her friends who shared her views, demonstratively sat on these benches along with Jewish students. And after Polish nationalists beat Irena’s Jewish friend, she crossed out the stamp on her student card and was suspended from school for 3 years. This was Irena Sendler before the outbreak of World War II.

By the time the war began and Poland was occupied by Nazi troops, Irena lived in Warsaw (before that she worked in the city social protection departments of Otwock and Tarczyn). At the very beginning of the occupation, back in 1939, Irena Sendler began helping Jews. Together with members of the underground, she produced and distributed about 3 thousand fake Polish passports to the Jewish population, which saved their owners first from ending up in the ghetto, and then from death.

Until 1939, the Jewish quarter of Warsaw occupied approximately a fifth of the city; the townspeople themselves called it the northern district and the center of Jewish life in the pre-war capital of Poland, although Jews then lived in other areas of the city. After the occupation of Poland by the Nazis, they thought about creating a ghetto on the territory of Warsaw. Their plans began to be implemented in March 1940, it was then that Governor General Hans Frank decided to create the Warsaw Ghetto. The Nazis organized it in the city, where historically a large percentage of the Jewish population lived. 113 thousand Poles were evicted from this area, and 138 thousand Jews were settled in their place. By the end of 1940, 440 thousand people already lived in the ghetto (approximately 37% of the total population of Warsaw), while the area of the ghetto was only 4.5% of the area of the entire city.

Children in the Warsaw Ghetto

The living conditions in the ghetto were monstrous, there was a huge overcrowding of the population, and the food distribution standards were tiny, they were designed to ensure that the ghetto residents died of starvation. So in the second half of 1941, the food norm for Jews was only 184 kilocalories per day. But thanks to food products illegally supplied to the Warsaw Ghetto, real consumption here averaged 1,125 kilocalories per day.

The mortality rate in the ghetto was quite high, and the Nazis were afraid of epidemics that could arise among the weakened Jewish inhabitants, after which they could spread to other occupied territories. It was for this reason that at that time Irena Sendler, already an employee of the Warsaw Health Department, could visit the ghetto for sanitary treatment and other activities aimed at preventing epidemics. In particular, she checked the ghetto residents for signs of typhus; the Germans were very afraid of the spread of this disease.

In 1942, Irena began collaborating with the Polish underground organization Żegota - Council for Aid to Jews (her pseudonym in the organization was Jolanta). While visiting the ghetto, Sendler was literally torn to pieces in order to help as many people in need as possible. According to her, there was a real hell inside, people in the ghetto died in the hundreds right on the streets, and the whole world watched in silence. Irena organized an entire system of assistance for residents of the Warsaw ghetto, using money from the city administration and Jewish charitable organizations for these purposes. She brought food, coal, clothing, and basic necessities into the ghetto. In the summer of 1942, when the deportation of Jews from the ghetto to death camps began en masse, she realized that it was time to act decisively; there was no more time to waste.

Irena on Christmas Eve 1944

By that time, the Polish underground organization “Zhegota” had organized a large-scale rescue campaign for Jewish children. Irena Sendler, who knew many people in the ghetto, became an important component of this action, ensuring its successful implementation. In the ghetto, Irena went from house to house, barracks, basement, and tried to find families with children everywhere. According to the heroine’s recollections, the most difficult thing was to persuade parents to give up their children. They asked Irena - could she guarantee their safety? And what she could guarantee them was only that if they remained in the ghetto, the children would face inevitable death, and outside its walls they would have a chance for salvation. In the end, parents gave their children to her, and literally the next day they could become victims of massacres in the ghetto or find themselves sent to death camps.

Irena was able to use the fascists' fear of an epidemic in the ghetto and found various roads leading children out of this hell. At the same time, she did not act alone; in all the stories about her activities in the ghetto, other people are also mentioned; there were really many of these people. For example, there is a famous truck driver, in the back of which children were taken out of the ghetto under a tarpaulin. The truck carried disinfectants into the ghetto. The truck driver had a dog, which he put in the cab with him. According to one version, he trained it to bark when leaving the ghetto, according to another, he simply stepped on the dog’s foot, after which it began to bark plaintively. The barking should have drowned out the crying of small children if it had come from the back of the truck at that moment. Sendler and volunteer nurses helped, who gave the kids a small dose of sleeping pills, after which they took the children to the city along with the corpses. There was also the famous tram No. 4, “the tram of life,” as it was also called, it ran throughout Warsaw and made stops inside the ghetto. Nurses hid babies in cardboard boxes with holes to prevent them from suffocating under the seats of this tram, shielding them with their bodies. In addition, Jewish children were taken out of the ghetto in bales and garbage bags with bloody bandages and garbage destined for city landfills. This is exactly how Irena Sendler took her adopted daughter Elzbetta Ficowska, who was then only 6 months old, out of the ghetto in July 1942 in a trash basket. The girl's parents were killed by the Nazis.

Warsaw ghetto: Jews walk across the bridge that connects parts of the ghetto, photo waralbum.ru

Children were taken out of the ghetto using sewers. Once Irena was able to hide a child even under her skirt. Older children were often led through secret passages through houses that adjoined the ghetto. Such operations were calculated literally in seconds. For example, one boy rescued from the Warsaw ghetto said that he, hiding, waited around the corner of the house for a German patrol to pass, after which, having counted to 30, he ran across the street to the sewer hatch, which by that time was already open from below. After that, he jumped into the hatch and through the sewer went outside the ghetto.

For such actions, all those involved faced the death penalty, but Irena and her comrades took the risk because they understood that if the kids remained in the ghetto, they would almost certainly face death. Sendler calculated that in order to save one child from the ghetto, approximately 12 people outside its borders, working in complete secrecy, are needed. These included drivers of various vehicles, Warsaw employees who took out food cards, and numerous nurses. There was also a need for Polish families or religious parishes that were ready to take in Jewish children, sheltering them for a while and providing them with shelter and food. Rescued children were given new names and placed in sympathetic families, nunneries, hospitals, and orphanages. Irena later recalled that no one refused her to shelter the rescued children.

This small, round-faced woman with a smile on her face was not only a very brave person, but also a very responsible worker and a good organizer. For each child rescued from the Warsaw ghetto, she issued a special card, which indicated his former name, as well as a new fictitious name, the address of the foster family and information about which family the children originally belonged to. The addresses and numbers of orphanages were also entered here if children were transferred to them. Irena placed all the data about the rescued children in glass jars, which she buried under a tree in her friend’s garden. All this was done so that after the end of the war the children could be returned to their families. It was only after the war that it became known that there was no one to return many children to. The Nazis killed not only their parents, but also their relatives. But even despite this, the information that Sendler saved was not in vain, since the children received their history, knew who they were and where they came from, and maintained a connection with their past and their people.

Jews are driven by SS soldiers to the loading area (Umschlagplatz) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, photo: waralbum.ru

Still, Sandler's luck couldn't last forever. In the second half of October 1943, she was captured by the Gestapo following a denunciation from the previously arrested owner of a laundry, which housed one of the secret meeting points. After her arrest, she was kept in the Serbia wing of Pawiak prison. She was terribly tortured in prison, but she did not betray any of her acquaintances, and also did not talk about the rescued Jewish children. If the Germans had found her archives buried in glass jars, the rescued children would have had to say goodbye to their lives. Ultimately, Irena was sentenced to death, but she was saved. The guards who were supposed to accompany her to execution were bribed by “Zhegota” and on November 13, 1943, she was secretly taken out of prison, while in official documents she was listed as executed. Until the end of the war, she hid under an assumed name, while never ceasing to help Jewish children.

Irena Sendler’s lists included more than 2.5 thousand children rescued from the Warsaw ghetto; this list was approximately twice as long as the famous list of Oskar Schindler. After the war, she unearthed her cache and gave her lists to Adolf Berman, chairman of the Central Committee of Polish Jews (from 1947 to 1949). With the help of these lists, the committee staff managed to return some of the children to their relatives, and the orphans were placed in Jewish orphanages, from where they were later able to go to Israel.

In 1965, the list of rescued children brought Irene the honorary title of “Righteous Among the Nations” and a medal of the same name, although she had to wait another 18 years before she was able to visit Israel in order to plant her tree on the memory lane. The authorities of communist Poland simply did not let the woman leave the country. In 2003, Irena Sendler was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, the highest state award in Poland, and she was also an honorary resident of Warsaw and the city of Tarczyn. In addition, in 2007 she was awarded the International Order of Smile, becoming the oldest recipient. The Order of the Smile is an award given to famous people who bring joy to children. Irena Sendler was very proud of this order. Also in 2007, she was nominated by the President of Poland and the Prime Minister of Israel for the Nobel Peace Prize for saving almost 2,500 children's lives, but the prize committee did not change the rules according to which it is awarded for actions committed within the last two years.

Irena Sendler in 2005

Irena Sendler lived a long and interesting life, passing away in Warsaw on May 12, 2008 at the age of 98. She definitely had something to be proud of, but she never boasted about what she did during the Second World War, considering it absolutely normal and ordinary to help those who were dying. For her, this was always a sore subject, Irena was sure that she could do even more for them...

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When the German fascists occupied Poland in 1939, Irena Sendlerova organized the secret transportation of small children from the Warsaw ghetto to freedom. At the same time, she risked her own life, since helping Jews was considered a crime and was punishable by death.

In 1942, Irena Sendlerova joined the Žegota resistance movement, which operated in the Polish capital. There were 20 people in her group. Over the course of four years, they managed to rescue a total of 2,500 children.

Jews were forbidden to leave the ghetto area on pain of death. The babies were taken out in ambulances, carried out through sewers, and once Sendlerova even hid the child under her skirt.

In 1943, the Nazis burned the Warsaw ghetto, dooming all its inhabitants to death.

Torture by the Gestapo

In October 1943, Irena was arrested. She endured torture by the Gestapo and refused to reveal the names of the children taken from the ghetto.

The Nazis sentenced her to death. On the day of the execution, the underground members managed to bribe the SS guards and save their comrade-in-arms.

As BBC Warsaw correspondent Adam Easton reports, Irena Sendlerova was categorically against her life being called “heroic.” She said that she had done too little and that was why her conscience was tormenting her.

According to her, the hardest thing for her was to persuade parents to decide to separate from their children in order to save their lives.

In 2007, Sendlerova was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize . However, the commission for presenting the awards turned out to be extremely corrupt - It was not elected.

Received her award Al Gore - for a slideshow on global warming... in the hope that he will become president of the United States. A year later, I received an award Barack Obama for his election promises.

The Polish Parliament declared her a national heroine "for saving the most defenseless victims of Nazi ideology - Jewish children." The resolution was adopted unanimously.

In the eighties, in Israel she was awarded the title of “Righteous Among the Nations.”

Irena Sendlerova died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98. Her daughter reported her death.

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The feat of Irena Sendler

This grandmother's name is God's dandelion Irena Sendler. Do you know who she is? Most likely no. Few people knew about it until 2007, when she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. But, unfortunately, she then lost. And this perfectly characterized the neglected state of this prestigious award, its politicization and formality. During World War II, as an employee of the Warsaw Health Department, she visited the Warsaw Ghetto, where she looked after sick children. Under this cover she, risking her life, took 2,500 children from the ghetto and thereby saved them from death.

I can't wrap my head around this fact. This is something unearthly and even mystical. Imagine one small, very fragile and weak woman, risking everything, saves small children every day from certain death - about 2,500 souls in total(there is information on the Internet about 3,000 saved people). Yes it Love in its purest form! Dimensionless, not limited by anything, selfless. We can admire this, but it is difficult for us to understand, because we have been different for a long time.

Born on February 15, 1910 in Warsaw. During World War II, she was an employee of the Warsaw Health Administration and, in addition, a member of the Polish underground organization - the Council for Aid to Jews (Zegota).

To be able to enter the ghetto, Irene managed to get for herself and her accomplice, Irena Schultz, official passes from the Warsaw Department of Epidemic Control. Together they visited the ghetto every day, and soon they managed to establish useful connections there, which helped them in the future to take their children outside the ghetto. together with a friend they brought food, medicine, money and clothes to the ghetto. Later, they managed to involve other concerned organizations in this process. However, given the terrible conditions in the ghetto, where 5,000 people died a month from hunger and disease, they decided to help people, especially children, get out of the ghetto. It was not an easy task. And over time it became even more difficult - the Germans sealed all possible exits in all directions: underground passages, holes in the ghetto wall, etc. - which Irena I used it in the beginning to breed children. She bribed some guards when she had money, and sometimes she managed to simply throw children over the ghetto fence. Very often, she would hide babies in her toolbox and older children in the back of her truck under a tarp. She always carried a dog in her car, which she trained to bark at the guards when the car was allowed into or out of the ghetto. The dog's barking drowned out the noise or crying of babies.

Sendler She always carefully noted on paper, in coded form, the original names of the rescued children and stored this information in glass jars, which she buried in her garden. She did this in order to to at some point in the future find the parents of these children and restore families. As a result, in these jars in the garden Sendler has accumulated the names of 2,500 children.

On October 20, 1943 Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo. She was beaten and tortured, during which both legs and both arms were broken. But the Gestapo failed to break her spirit: they did not receive any information from her. Since then, Sendler could only walk on crutches. Gestapo sentenced Irena Sendler to death penalty, but she was saved by the organization Zegota who bribed a guard to add her name to the list of those already executed. Thus, until the end of the war Irene Sendler I had to hide.

Much later, after the end of the war, she said: “I could have done more, saved more children... and this regret for what was not done will follow me for the rest of my life.” Well, what can I say. Irena Sendler is a saint!

She died in 2008, at the age of 98, shortly after losing the Nobel Peace Prize, which the Nobel Committee gave to US Vice President Al Gore, who lost the presidential election. Circus.

The life of Irena Sendler is a very difficult, but surprisingly beautiful story. A story of great love, incredible courage and extraordinary valor.

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, Irena Sendlerova(Polish Irena Sendlerowa(full name Irena Stanislava Sendlerova(Polish Irena Stanisława Sendlerowa), born Krzyzanowska(Polish Krzyżanowska)); 15 February 1910, Warsaw - 12 May 2008, Warsaw) - Polish resistance activist who saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto.

Early life

Irena was born into the family of Stanisław Krzyżanowski (1877-1917) and Janina Karolina Grzybowska (1885-1944). Before Irena was born, her father participated in underground activities during the revolution of 1905, was a member of the teaching staff and was a socialist doctor who treated mainly poor Jews, whom other doctors refused to help. He died of typhus contracted from patients. After his death, representatives of the Jewish community offered to help his wife pay for Irena's education. Sendler entered the University of Warsaw to study Polish literature and joined the Polish Socialist Party.

The Second World War

During World War II, Irena Sendler, an employee of the Warsaw Health Department and a member of the Polish underground organization (under the pseudonym Jolanta) - the Council for Aid to Jews (Zhegota), often visited the Warsaw Ghetto, where she looked after sick children. Under this cover, she and her comrades took 2,500 children from the ghetto, who were then transferred to Polish orphanages, private families and monasteries.

The babies were given sleeping pills, placed in small boxes with holes in them to prevent them from suffocating, and taken out in cars that carried disinfectants to the camp. Some children were taken out through the basements of houses directly adjacent to the ghetto. Gutters were also used for escapes. Other children were carried out in bags, baskets, and cardboard boxes.

She hid the babies in a toolbox, the older children under a tarp in the back of a truck. In addition, there was a dog in the back, trained to bark when the car was allowed into or out of the ghetto; according to another version, the dog was sitting in the cab, and the driver, when leaving the gate, stepped on its paw to make the dog bark. The barking of the dog drowned out the noise or crying made by the babies.

Irena Sendler wrote down the data of all rescued children on narrow strips of thin paper and hid this list in a glass bottle. The bottle was buried under an apple tree in a friend’s garden, with the goal of finding the children’s relatives after the war.

On October 20, 1943, she was arrested following an anonymous denunciation. After torture, she was sentenced to death, but she was saved: the guards who accompanied her to the place of execution were bribed. Official papers declared her executed. Until the end of the war, Irena Sendler went into hiding, but continued to help Jewish children.

After the war

After the war, Sendler unearthed her cache of data on the rescued children and handed them over to Adolf Berman, chairman of the Central Committee of Polish Jews from 1947 to 1949. Using this list, committee staff found the children and handed them over to their relatives. The orphans were placed in Jewish orphanages. Later, a significant part of them were transported to Palestine, and eventually to Israel. After the establishment of the communist regime in Poland, Irena Sendler was persecuted by the authorities of the Polish People's Republic for her collaboration with the Polish Government in exile and the Home Army. When Sendler was interrogated in 1949, she was pregnant. The boy (Andrzej) was born prematurely (11/9/1949) and died 11 days later.

Due to political differences with Israel, the Polish government did not allow Irena Sendler to leave the country at the Israeli invitation. She was able to visit Israel only after the fall of the communist regime and the change of government in Poland.

Irena Sendler was married twice. In 1932, she married Mieczysław Sendler (1910-2005), but even before the start of the war they separated, although they did not file for divorce. During the war, Mieczysław was captured. After his repatriation in 1947, they divorced and in the same year Irena married Stefan Zgrzębski (in reality the Jew Adam Zelnikier, 1905-?), whom she met as a student and with whom she began an affair just before the German attack . They had three children: Andrzej, Adam (1951-1999) and Janina. They divorced in 1959.

The last years of her life, Irena Sendler lived in a one-room apartment in the center of Warsaw.

Awards

In 1965, the Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem awarded Irena Sendler the title of Righteous Among the Nations.

In 2003 she was awarded the Order of the White Eagle.

In 2007, the Polish president and the Israeli prime minister nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize for saving nearly 2,500 children's lives, but the prize was awarded to US Vice President Al Gore for his work on global warming, since the prize is awarded for actions committed in over the past two years.

In 2007, she was awarded the International Order of Smile, becoming the oldest recipient.

Honorary citizen of the city of Warsaw and the city of Tarczyn.

Perpetuation of memory

In art

In April 2009, the television film “Irena Sendler’s Braveheart,” filmed in the fall of 2008 in Latvia, was released on American television screens. The role of Irena was played by New Zealand actress Anna Paquin.
Irena's life was also reflected in songs. For example, the Irish group Sixteen Dead Men performed the song “Irena” in 2009 (HFWH Records).

In numismatics

The portrait of Irena Sendler together with Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Matilda Getter is placed on the Polish silver coins of the Polish Righteous Among the Nations (see image).

Irena Sendler, an employee of the Warsaw Health Department, often visited the Warsaw ghetto, where she looked after sick children. Under this cover, she and her comrades took 2,500 children from the ghetto, who were then transferred to Polish orphanages, private families and monasteries.

Irene hid the babies in a toolbox, the older children under a tarp in the back of a truck. In addition, there was a dog in the back, trained to bark when the car was allowed into or out of the ghetto. According to another version, the dog was sitting in the cab, and the driver, when leaving the gate, stepped on its paw to make the dog bark. The barking of the dog drowned out the noise or crying made by the babies.

On October 20, 1943, Irena was arrested following an anonymous denunciation. After torture, she was sentenced to death, but she was saved: the guards who accompanied her to the place of execution were bribed. Official papers declared her executed. Until the end of the war, Irena Sendler went into hiding, but continued to help Jewish children.

After the war, Sendler unearthed her cache of data on the rescued children and handed them over to Adolf Berman (chairman of the central committee of Jews in Poland). Using this list, committee staff found the children and handed them over to their relatives. The orphans were placed in Jewish orphanages. Later, a significant part of them were transported to Palestine, and eventually to Israel. After the establishment of the communist regime in Poland, Irena Sendler was persecuted by the authorities of the Polish People's Republic for her collaboration with the Polish Government in exile and the Home Army.

When Sendler was interrogated in 1949, she was pregnant. The boy (Andrzej) was born prematurely (11/9/1949) and died 11 days later.

Due to political differences, the Polish government did not allow Irena Sendler to leave the country at the Israeli invitation. She was able to visit Israel only after the fall of the communist regime and the change of government in Poland.

The last years of her life, Irena Sendler lived in a one-room apartment in the center of Warsaw.

In 1965, the Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem awarded Irena Sendler the title of Righteous Among the Nations.

In 2003 she was awarded the Order of the White Eagle.

In 2007, the Polish president and the Israeli prime minister nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize for saving almost 2,500 children's lives, but the prize was awarded to US Vice President Al Gore for his work on global warming.

In 2007 she was awarded the International Order of Smile.

Honorary citizen of the city of Warsaw and the city of Tarczyn.

Irena Sendler (Sendlerova, née Krzyzanowski) was an underground movement activist who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. The Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem awarded Irena the title of Righteous Among the Nations, along with Nikolai Kiselyov and Oskar Schindler. This woman, with the help of the Zegota resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw, provided children with false documents and, with a team of like-minded people, secretly took them out of the ghetto, giving them to orphanages, private families and monasteries.

Irena Sendler was born on February 15, 1910 in Warsaw into a Polish Catholic family, but grew up in the city of Otwock. Her father, Stanislaw Krzyzanowski, was a doctor. Stanislav died of typhus in February 1917, having contracted the disease from a patient of his who his colleague refused to treat. Many of these patients were Jewish. Stanislav taught his daughter: if a person is drowning, you need to try to save him, even if you yourself don’t know how to swim.

After the death of her father, Irena and her mother move to Warsaw. Jewish community leaders suggested that Irena's mother pay for her daughter's education. The girl sympathized with Jews from childhood. At that time, in some universities in Poland there was a rule according to which Jews were supposed to sit on the benches reserved for them at the end of the lecture hall. Irena and some of her like-minded people sat at such benches together with the Jews as a sign of protest. In the end, Irena was expelled from the university for three years.

In 1931, Irena married Mieczysław Sendlerow, a member of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Warsaw. However, she would later divorce him and marry Stefan Zgrzembski, with whom Irena would have a daughter, Janka, and a son, Adam.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Sendler lived in Warsaw (previously she worked in the city departments of Social Security of Otwock and Tarczyn). In early 1939, when the Nazis took over Poland, she began helping Jews. Irena and her assistants created approximately 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families before joining the underground resistance organization Zegota. Helping Jews was extremely risky; the entire household would be immediately shot if a Jew was found hiding in their home.

In December 1942, the newly created Council for Aid to Jews "Zegota" invited Irene to head their "children's unit" under the fictitious name Iolanta. As a social welfare worker, she had special permission to enter the Warsaw ghetto. According to her position, she had to check the residents of the ghetto for signs of typhus, because the Germans were very afraid that the infection could spread beyond its borders. During such visits, Irena wore a headband with the Star of David as a sign of solidarity with the Jews, and also in order not to attract unnecessary attention to herself.

She carried children out of the Jewish ghetto in boxes, suitcases, and also on carts. Under the pretext of checking sanitary conditions during outbreaks of typhus epidemics, Sendler would come into the ghetto and take small children out of it in an ambulance, sometimes disguising them as luggage or carry-on luggage. She also used the old courthouse on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto (which still stands) as the main point for the transfer of children.

Children were left in Polish families, Warsaw orphanages or monasteries. Sendler worked closely with social worker and Catholic nun Matilda Getter.

Irena wrote down information about the removed children and put them in jars, which she buried under a tree in her friend’s garden. These banks contained information about the children's real and fictitious names, as well as information about where they were taken and what family they originally belonged to. This was done so that after the end of the war the children could be returned to their families.

In 1943, Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo, severely tortured and sentenced to death. She didn't give anyone away. Fortunately, "Zegota" saved her by bribing the German guards on the way to the site of her execution. Irena was abandoned in the forest, unconscious, with broken legs and arms. Sendler's name was on the list of those executed. She had to hide until the end of the war, but she continued to save Jewish children. After the war, Irena retrieved buried jars containing 2,500 records of children. Some children were returned to their families, but, unfortunately, many of the parents were exterminated in concentration camps or went missing.

After the war, Irena Sendler continued to be persecuted by the secret police, as her activities during the war were sponsored by the Polish government. Interrogations of the pregnant Irena eventually led to the miscarriage of her second child in 1948.

In 1965, Sendler was awarded the title of “Righteous Among the Nations” by the Jewish organization Yad Vashem. Only this year, the Polish government allowed her to leave the country to receive the award in Israel.

In 2003, John Paul II sent Irene a personal letter. On October 10, she received the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honor; as well as the Jan Karski Award for Brave Heart, given to her by the American Center for Polish Culture in Washington.

In 2006, the Polish President and the Israeli Prime Minister nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize, but the prize was awarded to US Vice President Al Gore.

Irena Sendler died on May 12, 2008 in her room in a private hospital in Warsaw. She was 98 years old.

In May 2009, she was posthumously awarded the Audrey Hepburn Philanthropy Award. Named after the famous actress and UNICEF Ambassador, this award recognizes people and organizations that help children.

Sendler was the last survivor of the "Children's Section" of the Zegota organization, which she headed from January 1943 until the end of the war.

American director Mary Skinner began working on a documentary film based on the memoirs of Irena Sendler in 2003. This film will include the last interview of Irena herself, made shortly before her death. Three of Irena's assistants and several Jewish children whom they rescued took part in the filming of the film.

The film, shot in Poland and America with cinematographers Andrei Wulf and Slawomir Grunberg, will recreate the places where Irena lived and worked. This is the first documentary about Sandler's feat. Mary Skinner recorded nearly 70 hours of interviews for the film and spent seven years poring over archives, speaking with experts on the story, as well as witnesses in the United States and Poland, to uncover previously unknown details about Irena's life and work. The film will premiere in the United States in May 2011.