Janina Zgrzembska

“Mum always said: Please don't call me a heroine. I just did what I had to do.” Irena Sendler’s daughter speaks about her mother

Irene Sendler, photographed in 1942. By then she was already involved in operations to help Jewish children. Public domain

Risking everything Irena Sendler saved thousands of Jewish children from the murderous clutches of the Holocaust in occupied Warsaw.

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