I read this story a couple of years ago and thought you guys might enjoy it as it was very heartwarming and moving to me. She knew that whole families were going to be slaughtered by the nazis so she made a plan to save as many children as she could.
"They found that Irena Sendler, as a non-Jewish social worker, had gone into the Warsaw Ghetto, talked Jewish parents and grandparents out of their children, rightly saying that all were going to die in the Ghetto or in death camps, taking the children past the Nazi guards (in body bags, saying they were ill, or using one of the many means of escape from the Ghetto-the old courthouse for example), and then adopting them into the homes of Polish families or hiding them in convents and orphanages. She made lists of the children's real names and put the lists in jars, then buried the jars in a garden, so that someday she could dig up the jars and find the children to tell them of their true identity." Link:
http://www.irenasendler.org/
Topic: The Story of Irena Sendler, Who Saved 2500 Jewish Children In Warsaw (Read 5676 times)