Irena Sendler Quotes

Poland, Social Worker
February 15, 1910 – May, 12, 2008.

Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska), also referred to as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland, nom de guerre "Jolanta" (15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008), was a Polish nurse, humanitarian, and social worker who served in the Polish Underground during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw, and was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews (Polish: Rada Pomocy Żydom), which was active from 1942 to 1945.

Humanity has understood nothing.

Irena Sendler
- Humanity
- Understood
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.

Irena Sendler
- Me
- Hero
- Term
Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.

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- Children
- True
- Stress
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

Irena Sendler
- People
- Good
- Bad
After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again.

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Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.

Irena Sendler
- World
- Holocaust
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

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- Up
- Believe

The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.

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- World
- Love
- Humility
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

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- Help
- Today
- Earth
I still carry the marks on my body of what those 'German supermen' did to me then. I was sentenced to death.

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- Death
- German
I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.

Irena Sendler
- People
- Alone
Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

Irena Sendler
- Religious
- Blood
- Continue