Irena Sendler - an inconvenient witness to history 

During World War II, Irena Sendler (1910-2008) worked in the Warsaw Social Welfare Department, and from 1943 she steered the children’s section of the “Żegota” Council to Aid Jews. During the Holocaust, she and her co-workers saved many Jewish children form the ghettos in occupied Poland. In 1965, she was honoured with the title of Righteous Among the Nations. We present the account of Irena Sendler’s daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, from the oral history collection of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
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Interview: Małgorzata Kozera (researcher), Grzegorz Liwiński (camera operator), POLIN Museum (2014);
Directing: Artur Królicki, TakTo (2015);
Translation: Andrew Rajcher;
Music: Kevin MacLeod licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0).
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