Jolanta & Her 2, 500 Kids: The True Story of Irena Sendler (A BOOK ME) [A Book Me, Barbara Scholzen] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Irena Krzyzanowska was born in Poland on February 15, 1910. She was raised her Catholic parents to respect and love people regardless of their ethnic background or social status. Her father Irena Sendler, who died yesterday at 98, was a Polish social worker who helped save an estimated 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities. Her dramatic story, including how she Jolanta & Her 2500 Kids - The True Story of Irena Sendler (Paperback) / Author: A Book Me / Author: Barbara Scholzen / Illustrator: Barbara Scholzen Jolanta, whose real name was Irena Sendler, organized a network of She had kept a complete list of all 2,500 Jewish children and their new identities. It's the story Marie-Laure, blind from the age of 6 who lives with her The true story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic woman who helped smuggle In 1942, Sendler, who went the underground name of Jolanta, and her associates were able to save 2,500 Jewish children from the ghetto. Irena carefully noted the true names and family members of the youngsters in code and buried the list in jars under a neighbor s apple tree, hoping to one day dig up the jars and reunite the families. The list was in the parcel Sendler threw out the window that day, re-buried her compatriot. Some 2,500 children s names were in the jars. very professional role in the rescue of 2500 Jewish babies and young children from the ghetto, Irena Sendler and her helpers initially rescued children who tance of being able to tell the children about their true identity in better times On October 20 1943 Sendler (code name Jolanta) was arrested and placed in the Polish Catholic social worker Irena Sendler defies Nazi rule to save 2,500 Jewish children during the Second World War. Her true story is lost until three Protestant teens from rural Kansas find a Irena Sendler 1910 - 2008. The Polish nurse who saved 2500 Jewish children The exact number of children saved Sendler and her partners is unknown. Perished in the Nazis' death camps - Sendler wrote the children's real names on The children had known her only her code name Jolanta. Holocaust stories. Irena Sendler was one of the most courageous women who has ever lived. She not only put her life on the line to rescue Jewish children right under the Though she rescued more than 2500 children and babies from the Warsaw The children had only known Irena her code name, Jolanta, and it was Nearly 2500 children were saved from Warsaw's Ghetto and an almost A Polish Catholic, Ms Sendlerowa, whose code name was Jolanta, decided to show her "Indeed the opposite is true - I continue to have qualms of Then the story was uncovered four young students at Uniontown High School, Irena Sendler accomplished her incredible deeds with the active assistance of the church. She kept the only record of their true identities in jars buried beneath an apple tree in a In all, the jars contained the names of 2,500 children. Irena Sendler understood the Jewish people and was a wonderful Polish Lady they put her self in harms way to help the Jewish people she had true love and compassion because of her love for the Lord Jesus Christ and wanted to help as many Jewish Children as she could and alot of Jewish Mother's that trusted her. After his death, Jewish community leaders offered her mother help in paying for Sendler's education her underground network, rescued 2,500 Jewish children in Poland during World War II Irena (code name Jolanta) was arrested on October 20, 1943. The author of the Polish book which features Irena's life story says, In the 1930s, Sendler conducted her social work as one of the activists Sendler participated, with dozens of others, in smuggling Jewish children out of the Sendler, then known her nom de guerre Jolanta, took over the section from tells the story of the four Kansas school girls and their discovery of Irena Sendler in This is a must read book! Irena Sendler saved some 2500 children and adults from the Warsaw Ghetto under German occupation. Her story along with those with whom she worked is amazing. The children were hidden in various places and some moved several times during the course of the war. Irena Sendler was born on February 15, 1910, at Warsaw and spent her younger days at Otwock. She learned service motto in her early days from her parents. Her father Dr. Stanislaw Krzyzanowski was a physician who served low-income families of Jews that too his service to typhus infected citizens has been well documented in the history of Poland. Smuggling Children out of the Ghetto Irena Sendler Poland Irena Sendler Sendler, whose underground name was Jolanta, exploited her I'll keep your child's real name and new identity on a secret list so you some 2,500 children lived through the war thanks to Irena and her network of The website is dedicated to telling Irena's story based on of the children's division of Zegota and given the code-name Jolanta. Sendler's list - Catholic woman rescued 2,500 Jewish children Her story below. Her nickname was "Jolanta". Irena was thinking how and where to keep all of the real names of the children, in order to find their families What Doesn't Break You, Makes You The True Story of Yvonne Aronson She choose one of those stories about Albania and wrote a story through the eyes of the Her choice of a subject is Irena Sendler, who risked her life to save Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Jolanta and Her 2500 Kids. The true story of Irena Sendler recounts the life of a young woman who lived in Warsaw during WWII, being one of the few Christian Polish people who were allowed to get into the Ghetto. We learn that Irena's father was a doctor who died of Typhus. He contracted it while treating parts of the Jewish population. The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the the life and work of her professor and mentor, Dr. Helena Radlińska, Sendler their true identities will not be lost and that reunification with their families will be looking for the resistance leader known as Jolanta, the risk of what Sendler Sep 27, 2016 Tilar Mazzeo went to Poland and stumbled upon this story when she saw all the lights in the forest. She researched and what she found compelled her to write Irena's story. I read a children's version of Irena Sendler's story Jars of Hope a little while ago. I had not heard of Irena or her heroic efforts to save the children before that.