2. In 1940, the Nazis created a
Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland,
where over 400,000 Jews had to
live. More than 300,000 of them
died during the war.
3. Irena Sendler was a polish nurse
member of Zegota, a secret
organisation which rescued Polish
Jews. She worked for the health
department and was allowed to
enter the ghetto, so she decided to
save as many children as possible.
4. Irena gave the children new
identities and placed them with
Polish families. She wrote their real
names and families on pieces of
paper, which she put in two glass
jars and buried in a garden.
5. In 1943, the Nazis arrested
Irena and tortured her, but
she never revealed her
secrets. The Nazis planned
to kill her, but Zegota agents
gave some money to the
executioner, who helped her
to escape.
