Irena Sendler
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3 min readMar 14, 2020
At Yad Vashem — the memorial to the Holocaust in Israel — there is the Avenue of the Righteous, where a tree is planted for each non-Jew who saved Jews.
We have heard of some of the great heroes of the Shoah: Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg. But there are others.
Have you heard of Irena Sendler? If not, here is a summary: Irena Sendler died on May 23, 2008. She was 98. During the Holocaust, in Poland, she…
