Irena Stanisława Sendlerowa

Irena Sendler, Warsaw, February 15, 2005 photo by Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl

Irena Sandler was a social worker from Poland who helped to rescue 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto and place them with non-Jewish family, saving them from the harrowing fate that awaited them in concentration camps.