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Jewish Victims of the Holocaust: Hidden Children

Of the almost 1 million Jewish children in 1939 Poland , only about 5,000 survived. Most of these youngsters survived in hiding. Search for Family. Following ...

Israel turns down bid to honor Poland's Catholic nuns-rescuers

Brooklyn, N.Y. … An appeal to have Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial honor the memory of 1,000 Catholic nuns who hid and protected Jewish children ...

Research & Resources for The Yellow Bird Sings — Jennifer Rosner

“The Convent Children: The Rescue of Jewish Children in Polish Convents During the Holocaust,” yadvashem.org ›. Photos. Remnant of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall ...

Wartime Rescue of Jews by the Polish Catholic Clergy

Rescue activities on behalf of Jews were carried out by priests and nuns in more than one thousand Roman Catholic Church institutions—parishes, convents ...

Irena Sendlerowa - Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

Irena Sendlerowa was a social worker in Warsaw, who directed a children's rescue group to smuggle Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.

Irena Sendler's Children - Polscy Sprawiedliwi

According to the research of historians and available documentation, around five hundred Jewish children were helped by Sendler and her dozen or so close ...

In Hiding for Survival - The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program

Some Jewish children were able to avoid the ghettos or camps by going into hiding. ... A group of children looking happy and mischievous, standing against and on ...

These Polish nuns risked their lives resisting the Nazis - U.S. Catholic

On Palm Sunday in 1942, a traumatized Jewish child knocked on the convent door of the Sisters of St. Joseph in the small Polish village of ...

Irena Sendler: Life in a Jar | Lowell Milken Center

Catholic social worker Irena Sendler risked her own life to rescue numerous Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland in ...

Irena's Children - Aish.com

Irena Sendler is a 97-year-old Polish woman who saved 2500 Jewish children during the Holocaust.

Arthur Spielman - Holocaust Center - Wagner College

Bogner, Nahum. "The Rescue of Jewish Children in Polish Convents During the Holocaust." Yadvashem.org. Shoah Resource Center. Web. 7 Apr. 2015.

Coming Home - הארכיון הציוני

Many Jewish children were sheltered by Christian families or in monasteries, convents, and orphanages. Some foster families were paid for the risk they took, ...

How one person saved over 2000 children from the Nazis - YouTube

Get to know the story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who saved over 2000 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.

About the Project - Life in a Jar - Irena Sendler

Students from rural Kansas discovered a Polish Catholic woman who saved Jewish children. Few had heard of Irena Sendler in 1999.

Jewish Hidden Children in Belgium during the Holocaust

For instance, Suzanne Vromen studied the rescue of Jewish children in Belgian convents. However, her study does not elaborate on other Catholic institutions or ...

Honoring and Remembering Irena Sendler, Angel of Mercy

Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped save some 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto ...

11 - When the Polish Underground Helped the Jews: Institutional Aid

As head of the Children's Section of Żegota, the Polish Underground's Council for Aid to the Jews, Sendler rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto ...

Irena Sendler - Public Statues and Sculpture Association

She participated in smuggling Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing them with false identity documents and finding them shelter with Polish ...

Irena Sendler - Rescuer of the Children of Warsaw - Chabad.org

At the end of World War I a typhus epidemic broke out, and Irena's father, Dr. Stanislaw Krzyzanowski, devoted himself to caring for impoverished Jews suffering ...

Irena Sendler - the Polish nurse who saved 2500 Jewish children ...

During the Holocaust she worked for Zegota, a unit within the Polish underground established specifically to help Jews in hiding. As a health worker, she had ...