I just realized that I had never told you about this wonderful woman who became a second mother for thousands of children, because it allowed them to be born again with their enormous value and commitment. I'm talking about Irena Sendler, Jolanta
"The reason why I rescued children has its origin in my home, in my childhood. I was educated in the belief that a needy person should be helped from the heart, without looking at their religion or their nationality."
Irena Sendler helped more than 2,500 Jewish children during the occupation of Poland in World War II and saved them from certain death by risking their own lives.
When Germany invaded the country in 1939, Irena worked as a nurse in the Warsaw Department of Social Welfare and when the ghetto was created some Polish workers were allowed to enter to control possible epidemics.
When he was aware of the terrible conditions that were lived in the ghetto and in the terrible fate that awaited the children he began his secret work, as a spy whom no one knew, using that code name, Jolanta, and risking his life he decided try to save children who would otherwise be doomed to die.
He tried to convince their families to trust their children without being able to guarantee their survival or future news. He took the children hidden in sacks of potatoes, garbage cans, even in coffins. He got the help of other people who gave them false documents and looked for families to take care of them.
She was the only one who knew the children's real name and where they hid. His file was some papers he buried in a garden and, although he was arrested and tortured, he never revealed the identities of the little ones who managed to survive the holocaust, which most of their families could not get.
She was sentenced to death and saved by the resistance, and after the war, she dug up the jars where she kept the children's names and got them to reunite with their surviving relatives when there were them.
I could have done more, and this regret will follow me until the day I die.
Irena Sendler died in 2008, in Warsaw, at the age of 98. She had been a candidate for Nobel Peace but was not elected.
But it is certainly great mother, Jolanta His memory will remain as an example of a hero who saved thousands of children from death. For me it is a role model, a woman to learn a lot from, as in other aspects, the other great mothers of whom I have spoken to you on other occasions: Aurelia de los Cotta and Nancy Edison. Great mothers They are a true example for everyone.
