Social worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 children by burying their identities in jars under a tree. #history #historyfacts #survivor | GoodScience

During the Holocaust, she was the driving force behind a critical operation to save Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. She single-handedly smuggled 2,500 Jewish out of the ghetto and provided them with false identity papers. She did it at great risk to her life. After the war, she didn't reveal the incredible things she had done. For decades. Irena Sendler. On her birthday, we remember the bravery of this Polish-Catholic woman. Imagine how many Shoah victims would have lived had there been