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However, most of the parents did not survive.

In 1940, the Germans forced over 400,000 Jews that lived inside of Warsaw into a ghetto where thousands died of disease and starvation every month according to biography.

She was placed in the prison, where she was subjected to further interrogations and beatings, and from there on 13 November taken to another location, to be executed by firing squad.

Sendler and others, in accordance with their mission, wanted to help the neediest children such as orphans first.

It was the unacknowledged elephant in the living room—huge but shrouded.

In March 2002, of presented Sendler, Conard, and the students who produced the play with its annual award "for contributions made to saving the world" award.

This week, the Israeli star announced that she will portray Sendler in an.

With the help of her new recruits, Irena managed to save about 2,500 Jewish children and provide them temporary identities.

On 10 November 2003, she received the , Poland's highest civilian decoration, and the Polish-American award, the Award "For Courage and Heart", given by the in In 2006, Polish Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej and Stowarzyszenie Dzieci Holocaustu, the , and the Life in a Jar Foundation established the Irena Sendler's Award "For Repairing the World" , awarded to Polish and American teachers.

I am a German-American Jew, born after the war to parents who narrowly escaped the Holocaust.