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Irena Sendler

1910 - 2008

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Irena Stanisława Sendler (née Krzyżanowska; 15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008), operating under the nom de guerre Jolanta, was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom). In the 1930s, Sendler conducted her social work as one of the activists connected to the Free Polish University. From 1935 to October 1943, she worked for the Department of Social Welfare and Public Health of the City of Warsaw. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Irena Sendler is the 38th most popular social activist (down from 27th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Poland (down from 41st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Social Activist.

Irena Sendler was a Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Irena Sendler ranks 38 out of 840. Before her are Thích Quảng Đức, Emiliano Zapata, Bacha Khan, Toussaint Louverture, Jan Palach, and Ferdinand Lassalle. After her are Omar Mukhtar, Simon Wiesenthal, Sadako Sasaki, Lady Godiva, Simon bar Kokhba, and Olympe de Gouges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Irena Sendler ranks 13. Before her are Robert K. Merton, Archer Martin, Lee Byung-chul, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Gloria Stuart. After her are Jean Genet, Dominique Pire, Jacques Monod, Django Reinhardt, Konrad Zuse, and David Niven. Among people deceased in 2008, Irena Sendler ranks 15. Before her are Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel P. Huntington, Willis Lamb, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Hua Guofeng, and Albert Hofmann. After her are Richard Widmark, Miriam Makeba, Mahmoud Darwish, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Sydney Pollack, and Jørn Utzon.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Irena Sendler ranks 64 out of 1,694. Before her are Jakob Böhme (1575), Sigismund I the Old (1467), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Władysław III of Poland (1424), and Ferdinand Lassalle (1825). After her are Konstantin Rokossovsky (1896), Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928), Gustav Fechner (1801), John II Casimir Vasa (1609), Friedrich Bergius (1884), and Andrzej Wajda (1926).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Poland

Among social activists born in Poland, Irena Sendler ranks 3. Before her are Rosa Luxemburg (1871), and Ferdinand Lassalle (1825). After her are Mordechai Anielewicz (1919), Jan Karski (1914), Leopold Trepper (1904), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Franciszek Gajowniczek (1901), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Franceska Mann (1917), and Danuta Wałęsa (1949).

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