Sendler, Krzyżanowska, Irena, born 15-02-1910, in Warsaw, Miasto Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland 
to Dr. Stanislaw Lrzyzanowski a physician ( 1865 – 1917) 
and his wife, Janina Karolina, born Grzybowski (1885 – 1944) 
. She married two times, first to Mieczyslaw Sendler (1905 – 2005) ( born 1931) and then to Stehpan Zgrzembski (1905 – onbekend ( died 1947), from who she had two children, Andrzej Zgrzembski ( 1947–1947) and Adam Zgrzembski (1949–1999)..Irena Sendler was a member of the Council for Aid to Jews, codenamed “Żegota.” Żegota was a clandestine rescue organization of Poles and Jews in German-occupied Poland. Supported by the Polish government-in-exile, Żegota coordinated efforts to save Jews from Nazi persecution and murder. It operated from 1942 to 1945.
When Germany invaded Poland 
in 1939, Sendler was working for the Warsaw Social Welfare Department, providing services for orphans and the poor, including food, clothing, and medicine. To shelter the Jews who were receiving such services, she started registering them under fictitious Christian names and reporting that they had infectious diseases to ward off inspections. Upon the Nazis’ creation of the Warsaw Ghetto 
in 1942, she under the alias “Jolanta,”, joined the underground and took on the task of rescuing the children. Sendler legally entered the Ghetto with a government pass, bringing supplies daily. In her contact with the Jews, she managed to convince them to allow their children to be sheltered with non-Jews outside the Ghetto and also managed to find families willing to take them. Issuing forged identification documents with new identities for the children, she smuggled nearly 2,500 of them out of the Ghetto in ambulances, gunnysacks, body bags, and coffins. A Roman Catholic, Sendler received much assistance from the Catholic Church in finding homes for the children. She kept carefully-coded records of the children’s original and falsified names and stored the lists in jars, which she buried under an apple tree in a neighbor’s backyard, hoping for their future use in educating the children about their roots. The Nazis discovered her subterfuge and arrested her in 1943. Sendler was imprisoned, tortured, and sentenced to death, but refused to divulge the names of the children. A member of the underground managed to save her from execution by bribing a member of the Gestapo, and she managed to escape from prison. She received several humanitarian awards from various Jewish groups. In 1999, four Kansas high school students wrote a play about her life entitled “Life in a Jar,” which was publicized by National Public Radio, C-SPAN, and CBS. Sendler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
Death and burial ground of Sendler, Krzyżanowska, Irena.
She carefully recorded their original names and placements in code so that relatives could find them after the war. In the fall of 1943, Irena was appointed head of Żegota’s children’s section. 
Only a few days later, she was arrested by the Gestapo (German secret state police).
The Gestapo brutally beat and tortured her. Nonetheless, Irena never revealed the names of the children or her colleagues. She was later released from the Gestapo prison thanks to a bribe organized by her fellow rescuers. Despite the dangers, Irena continued working with Żegota under a new alias. Irena Sendler survived the war. In 1965, Yad Vashem recognized her as “Righteous Among the Nations.”
In this interview, Irena Sendler describes how she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo. The Gestapo brutally beat and tortured her. Nonetheless, Irena never revealed the names of the children or her colleagues. She was later released from the Gestapo prison thanks to a bribe organized by her fellow rescuers. Despite the dangers, Irena continued working with Żegota under a new alias.
Irena Sendler survived the war. In 1965, Yad Vashem recognized her as “Righteous Among the Nations.” she died a natural death, on 12-05-2008, old age 98 and she was buried at the Powązki CemeteryWarsaw, Miasto Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland Section 54 – 4 – 22.
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