Irena Sendler was born in 1910 in Otwock, near Warsaw. Her father, Stanisław Krzyżanowski, was a doctor. He ran a dispensary where he treated the poorest people, mainly Jews whom other doctors refused to see. When Irena was seven years old, her father died of typhus, contracted from his patients. Before dying, he passed on … Continue reading Irena Sendler, the woman who saved 2,500 children