Sendler Irena

Social worker and an active member in the Polish underground organisation Żegota (Council for Aid to Jews). Smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto providing them with false identity and housing outside the Ghetto. 1965 Righteous Among the Nations. 

Encyclopedia of the Holocaust / ed. I. Gutman. - New York : Macmillan, 1990. - v. 3/4, p. 1339