Someone Who Did for Others… 

After reading Gellhorn’s letter, I found it interesting to read this amazing story.

From The Epoch Times…

“How Much Can One Person Really Do” 

Ever wonder how much one person can do against – well, everything?

In Nazi-occupied Poland, one Polish woman once saved 400 lives. Her name was Irena Sendler.

When Nazis forced the Jews into Polish ghettos during World War II, Irena came into contact with many Jews due to her occupation as a social worker.

Despite the overwhelming pressure of her political environment, Sendler soon joined Żegota, the Council to Aid Jews, and began to use her job as a cover to smuggle Jewish orphans to safety. After they got out of the ghetto, Sendler would arrange for the orphans to stay with other families or in convents.

Eventually, as the living situation in the ghetto deteriorated and more and more Jews were sent off to camps, Sendler and her associates began smuggling out children from Jewish families as well. She would keep track of each child’s true identity before forging them false ones, burying all the records in a jar so that the parents could reunite with their children one day.

Unfortunately, many of these parents would not survive the concentration camps. But because of Sendler, their children would.

By the end of World War II, Sendler and her colleagues managed to save around 2,500 Jewish children. Of these 2,500, about 400 were rescued by Sendler herself.