Irena Sendler’s Warsaw Ghetto Rescues!

[00:00:00]She buried their names in jars underground hoping that one day someone would dig them up and remember. But first, she had to get them out alive.

[00:00:09]What would you risk to save a stranger's child? In 1942, a Polish nurse named Irena Sendler faced that question every day. She wasn't a soldier or a spy. She was just a social worker with a terrible choice. Watch children die in the Warsaw Ghetto or sneak them out and pray they survived. This is her story. A story of tiny hands, hidden identities, and jars filled with hope.

[00:00:36]The Warsaw Ghetto held nearly 400,000 Jews in a space meant for 30,000.

[00:00:41]Disease and starvation killed thousands each month.

[00:00:45]But Irena had a secret weapon, a pass from the city sanitation department. No one questioned a nurse checking for typhus.

[00:00:54]She didn't act alone. She recruited a network of 30 helpers, teachers, priests, even a grocer. They smuggled children out in ambulances, toolboxes, even coffins. One girl rode out inside a potato sack.