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Children were smuggled out in suitcases, potato sacks and even coffins.

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Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker who risked her life to save 2, Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War Two. Irena, a Catholic, was able to enter the ghetto because of her job. She was soon smuggling in food, medicine and clothing; and smuggling out children. And, as a member of the Zegota underground resistance movement, she recruited others to help.

Some children were hidden in suitcases, potato sacks, and even inside coffins. Others escaped through sewers. In , Irena was caught and tortured by the Gestapo but her supporters bribed a guard and she was released. Irena continued her work under a false name until the end of the war. She died in at the age of Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive.

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