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Irena Sendler (''née'' ''Krzyżanowska''), also referred to as ''Irena Sendlerowa'' in Poland, ''nom de guerre'' "Jolanta" (15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008),〔 was a Polish nurse and social worker who served in the Polish Underground in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II, and was head of the children's section of Żegota,〔Mordecai Paldiel, The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, Ktav Publishing House (January 1993), ISBN 0-88125-376-6〕〔Yad Vashem Shoa Resource Center, "Activites Żegota" PDF file, (Żegota ), page 4/34 of the Report.〕 the Polish Council to Aid Jews ((ポーランド語:Rada Pomocy Żydom)), which was active from 1942 to 1945. Assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members, Sendler smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter outside the Ghetto, saving those children from the Holocaust.〔 With the exception of diplomats who issued visas to help Jews flee Nazi-occupied Europe, Sendler saved more Jews than any other individual during the Holocaust.〔http://blogs.yu.edu/news/rethinking-the-polish-underground/〕 The German occupiers eventually discovered her activities and she was arrested by the Gestapo, tortured, and sentenced to death, but she managed to evade execution and survive the war. In 1965, Sendler was recognised by the State of Israel as Righteous among the Nations. Late in life she was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honor, for her wartime humanitarian efforts. ==Biography== Irena Sendler was born as Irena Krzyżanowska on 15 February 1910 in Otwock, near Warsaw,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irena Sendler )〕 to Dr. Stanisław Krzyżanowski, a physician, and his wife, Janina.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Polscy Sprawiedliwi - Przywracanie Pamięci )〕 Her father died in February 1917 from typhus contracted while treating patients.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biografia Ireny Sendlerowej )〕 After his death, Jewish community leaders offered to help her mother pay for Sendler's education, though her mother declined their help.〔 Sendler studied Polish literature at Warsaw University, and joined the Polish Socialist Party.〔 She opposed the ghetto-bench system that existed at some pre-war Polish universities and defaced her grade card. As a result of this public protest, she was suspended from the University of Warsaw for three years.〔 She married Mieczysław Sendler in 1931,〔 but they divorced in 1947. She then married Stefan Zgrzembski, a Jewish friend from her university days, by whom she had three children, Janina, Andrzej (who died in infancy), and Adam (who died of heart failure in 1999). In 1959 she divorced Zgrzembski and remarried her first husband, Mieczysław Sendler; however, they eventually divorced again.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irena Sendler: we tell you the story of a Holocaust heroine )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Irena Sendler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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