Who was Irena Sendler, and how many children did she save from the Warsaw Ghetto?
Answer
A Polish social worker who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, hiding their identities in jars buried under an apple tree
Did You Know?
Sendler and her network used ambulances, toolboxes, potato sacks, and coffins to smuggle children out. She was captured, tortured, had both legs broken by the Gestapo, but refused to reveal names. She survived the war and lived to 98.