How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis - Iseult Gillespie
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- Get to know the story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who saved over 2,000 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
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In 1943, Irena Sendler and Janina Grabowska froze when they heard Gestapo pounding on the front door. Knowing she was minutes from arrest, Irena tossed Janina her most dangerous possession: a glass jar containing the names of over 2,000 Jewish children she’d smuggled to safety from the Warsaw Ghetto. Who was this courageous woman? Iseult Gillespie details the life and legacy of Irena Sendler.
Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, directed by Chloé Gérard.
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Irena shows that anyone can make a difference.
Yeah! For example that really depressed German boy!
*wait no*
@@billnyetherussianspy7070 why not?
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But unfortunately many are not willing to make a difference.
@@cameorelaxingmusic3125 Did you have to do that
Why don't we learn about her in school? She's so inspiring
Exactly!
Be the schools and the United States itself are riddled Antisemitism
school doesn't want you to have a brain and a heart. They want you to live a dull life with hollow goals.
@@capitaopacoca8454 dude to what kind of school did you go 😅
@@MarieTilly My school is pretty good, but it can't be said about others.
Helping others with zero expectations from them is actually the true humanity.
You forgot the part where she even said she still feels guilt for not doing enough... If that doesn't show how devoted she was to helping people idk.
Exactly. We need more people like her
This is what being a true human is
Haha 😄
@@panda_invention1810 ?
There’s a wonderful biography about her called “Irenas children” if you like reading. You won’t be disappointed
I concur, it’s a brilliant read.
its amazing! ive read it! wonderful book.
THANKS FOR SHARING!!!
Yes! I read it too, it’s incredible.
thank you
"Irena" means Peace. Totally adding that to my list of potential baby names now.
I acted as surrogate for a dear friend. When a daughter was born she let me name her. She was called Irena Valentina (Valentina after the cosmonaut).
In what language ?
@@tomekkowal4780 russian. Although Irene (Iríni-Ειρήνη) is a greek name
@@valentinaiakovidou7594 i see
That would be awesome.
It's frightening to think how many such noble acts have been forgotten.
Or in this case surpresses
Yes how many didn’t keep a jar of names? Or were executed and could never contact anyone that was rescued? Each child would have no idea how many others were helped
Shakuntala, recognition is not something that helpful people crave. The act of helping and saving people's lives is much more rewarding than just mere recognition. Yet I can see how it can be frightening to us who won't know of such remarkable people
They died doing what they loved. I'm sure they were satisfied with what they had accomplished. That satisfaction of having lived a purposeful life is much more important than any praise they might receive as their legacy.
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"To save one Jewish child, ten Poles and two Jews had to risk death. To betray that same child and the family that hid him required only one informer or, worse still, one blackmailer. The risk of being caught by the SS was not prison, but death- death for the entire family."
-Irena Sendler
@@NJP-Supremacist i- ok then let’s just ignore people who lived through it and years of history?
@@NJP-Supremacist imagine denying a genocide
@@ataco9206 imagine falling for a nefarious trick because muh emotions
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@@NJP-Supremacist It is not some trick. It happened and everyone knows that. Denying this is like denying that you live in a house in front of your house.
My great-grandmother's life was saved by her. She's a true hero to whom my family is deeply thankful.
Wow
Damnn
wow
dang
If she had not been saved you wouldn’t exist!
We must not oversee Janina's courage.
I think it’s irena
@@Melimop5178 Janina was Irena's friend
Yes, but you mean _overlook_ .
Agreed. I would imagine that even having the names in one's possession would be cause for the death penalty.
Shame on me that I learned about Irena Sendler only today. Now reading more articles about her, plus searching for the movie “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler”.
its a huge fabrication
@@WillyEckaslike by whom,
@@WillyEckaslike it's a what?
@@marianbuduroi6463 porky pies...i would go into detail but the ) // ooze heavily censor on YT and it just gets dee leet d
@@WillyEckaslike imagine saving 2000 children and then having some armchair expert on the internet say its fake...
"i did so little" girlboss you saved more lives than people i can remember
❤
She reminds me of Oskar Schindler when he says he could have saved so many more.
it shows she wished she could do even more. a hero
"I could have saved one more."
"Girlboss" is an underrated term. She's beyond girl or boss. She's doing a god's job.
Not all hero's wear capes.
Yes!
No they wear leather trench coats
@The Fascist League ?? This wasn't copied
@The Fascist League like your personality is not just an edgy copypaste
Yes, some heroes wear bras
*THESE* are the stories they don't teach in our schools.
*THESE* are the people they don't honor in our books.
This is why our history education needs to be improved.
Actually, we learn about it in Poland
American History is horrid, but this story isn't related to the US at all, so I understand it being left out.
@@tavianbroadhead78 actually I think the US history has many good things too that are being left out. You only hear the bad, but did you know that there are many people call “abolitionists” look when there is bad people, there is also good people. Focus on both. And world history is barely being taught in the US. History is always in a grey area.
@@andromedamessier3176 idk what you are trying to say, but if you think all we do is focus on the bad you might just not listen lmao. History demonizes our enemies and makes our people into heroes, regardless of actual intent. I also never said US history was good, actually the opposite.
Yes especially in the USA because we also need to learn about ww2 impact on the world
"Whoever saves a life, saves the world entire."
Quoted from the Quran
"That is why We ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever takes a life, it will be as if they killed all of humanity; and whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity"
@@appleslover that statement doesn't always mean the opposite is automatically true
A dialogue in Schindler's list movie
@@015prabhatkumar6 Thats right. Also there was a movie about Irene Sendler. Its name "The Courageous Heart of Irene Sendler".
What a powerful story! It's a shame Sandler's story isn't more well known, doubly so that the Polish government tried to supress her story
The question is why. Was it due to her being socialist? Poland was a communist country under the Warsaw Pact. You’d think the Soviet government would have lauded her.
@@amandadane868 the poles like anyone who understands the history of the time knows that her story is impossible....but gats views from the fools who frequent this sort of presentation
The then-new government killed most of the resistance fighters and tried to suppress people like Witold Pielecki and so many more. Communists arrested or killed or oppressed anyone who helped during WWII.
@@TinTin-wo2db dont forget the R killed 22k polish officers and intelligensia ..the Kay ten massacre
I think every Pole knows Irena's story
I think this is especially beautiful as this is among other things a story of empathy even between generations, Religions and nationalities.
We can all learn a bit, always helping others no matter if it's picking up a book or helping people escape death or oppression.
Indeed
innit.
Indeed
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Saving a child saves the future. She created a momentum for those children that goodness can never discriminate.
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then why do jews today advocate for abortion so much?
After escaping from the face of Death, she says:
“I continue to have qualms of conscience that I did so little”
Words of a real hero for sure!
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Absolutely!
An incredible person
That means she wished she could have done even more.
@@ragantate3995 yes that is what it means +1 to your credit.
"A person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality" 😌
I needed this ❤️
“You see a man drowning, you must try to save him even if you cannot swim.”
― Irena Sendler, Life In A Jar
Like by throwing a life preserver or calling someone who can swim? Cos jumping into a river when you can't swim to save someone just means two drowning people.
@UCdsxUz5WD4-kNnvYMhM7_fg Yeah, try using the ways that don't involve you also drowning. If it's the thought that counts then put actual thought into how you can actually help the drowning person instead of recklessly diving in and risking two lives instead of one.
@@sweedy6647 it's the thought that counts
@@ximena15367 That's what I'm saying lol why'd you delete your reply
@@sweedy6647 Sorry didn't know how to reply but hey I'm here now
Not gonna lie, her happy ending was wholesome. I was expecting her to have a sad ending (like Anne Frank).
Miep Gies had a good ending, since you brought up Anne Frank.
I have a hard time deciding which part of Anne Frank's story I feel worse for, the fact that she was murdered in her teens, or the fact that she had her diary published worldwide...
@@ASmartNameForMe I'm pretty sure it was her own wish to have her diary published once all that was over.
Anne wanted to release her dairy after the war but died before she could. She wrote her dream of beeing a famous writer and wanting to publish her dairy. Her father read the dairy and published it for anne so her dream can come true.
@@asmaatif5868 well that’s both depressing and happy at the same time. Still though, I’ll never understand wanting that myself, though I suppose I didn’t go through half of what she did
This must be Sendler’s list that I heard so much about.
Schindler's list is a similar case of helping people escape (the film is beautiful, would recomend watching though its very upsetting)
Irena Sendler (The one from this video) and Oskar Schindler (The Schindler's List) are two different people.
Both good Human.
@@little_boy_blue he was joking tho anyways
@@Charlie-yq8hu that film is a top notch comedy if you ask me
@@NJP-Supremacist Why?? Also, no one asked you lol
For her to save over 2,000 children, and not leak a word about them, even when threatened with death, it was definitely God that sent her
Or maybe she was a good person
or we are people, and we know what to do
And god did nothing for the other millions?
or maybe everyone in the replies can respect other beliefs and move on.
God said trust me
There was a whole network of people who saved those children. There is a reason why Irena used the pronoun "we" instead of "I" in her interviews. That said, she deserves as much recognition as Schindler who initially had no qualms about using free labor.
schindlers list is a great fictional comedy movie
I love how still after everything happened to her, and how many lives she saved, she didn't take recognition and praise for her work.such a great and generous soul.
In 3rd grade, I found and article about her and was instantly hooked. I wrote my essay about her, and presented it in front of the class. I am so thankful that I was able to honor this true hero.
L
That last part reminded me of the ending in Schindler's list. Brought tears... What a hero! 👏
its utter bs
@@WillyEckaslike explain?
This was also the case with Sir Nicholas Winton. Wishing they could've done more is a great sign of humanity in someone that can burden them for the rest of their life. After seeing the horrors of ww2 you'd have survivor's guilt too
The real Schindler didn’t have that reaction until many years afterward, though. It was changed for the dramatic value for the film.
@@KaneShugar so jews lied for dramatic effect, amazing
My school has a whole comic book series about her and I've read all of them. She truly is a hero!
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LMFAO
"One person is enough to change the world", how true!
The narrator and animation are awesome!
Oh wow I’m super early for this. This is incredible. What a powerful story.
Proud graduate of "Social Work" degree here. People should know more about this job's dedication to save peoples' lives physically, mentally, everything as a whole.
you literally learned nothing other than ZOG propaganda, what a useless degree that teaches you nothing of real value
Definitely reassuring to see people remember the little sparkle of wellness of the times as horrible as WW2
Sadly theres not much attention on the resistance and and acts of kindess like this because a lot of the people who did it ended up killed by the nazis :(
@@Aki-gb8gm jee that's really unfortunate
:(
@sam's club damn who hurt u
WW2 was horrible because Europe demonized Germany instead of the jewish invaders attacking it
"Little sparkle of Wellness" is almost damning with faint praise. What she did wentcwell beyond such a vanilla concept as "Wellness". :-)
Irena Sendler is an reminder that amidst hate and prejudice in the world; there are those who would risk their lives to make a difference. Truly inspiring.
where are all these heroic jews today then?
Going through physical and mental torture, even sentenced to death, and still not leaking any information AND surviving the end of the war, that feels very special.
Her life was a godsend.
I am always in awe of people who were able to identify a sickened society who were able to oppose the tradition and saw it wrong ang unjust, only great minds can do that and in my opinion is thw highest form of intelligence.
I couldn't agree more!
Beautifully put. I completely agree to this.
She had the type of courage we must all aspire to have
I am from Poland and i am very glad
that the material about Irena Sendlerowa was created
I don't know why this made me emotional especially the things she said at the end!! She's an ICON!!
I did an essay on this In 7th grade. We had to do an essay about some thing that is very heart touching to us and this is what I chose. Irene is amazing
This makes me anxious of asking myself, "What do you want to be remembered for?"
Irena is an amazing human being and I’m astounded that there was someone this brave and courageous civilian during the war.
That's great and all because she lived to tell her legend but can you imagine all the other unlucky heroes like her who fell. Never to be heard of again.
RIP their soul... May all of their souls get justice
One true act of kindness always sparks another, thank you ted ed for telling this amazing story of sacrifice and human kindness :)
"I continue to have qualms of conscience that i did so little".
Such selfless people are legendary ❤️
Some people are so determined. Some children are more determined than adults. Feel grateful that you never had to go through any of this.
"I could have saved more" this kind from Schindler's list is one of the most heartbreaking ones in cinema.
Our schools need to raise awareness of truly courageous and selfless women like this. She is a inspiration to people all over the world especially to the children whose lives she saved.
This never happened and is easily disproven with real historical research, which is why it isn't popular
She named her daughter after her friend Janina... That is so beautiful ❤️❤️
Instead of being a trophy for heads of state that often bombed the Middle East or didn’t do their utmost to protect human rights, the Nobel Peace Prize should be given to these individual people that didn’t have the strength of a nation behind them, but did more for human rights and the furtherance of peace than anyone else
Yeah, this is a lesson very worth sharing... thank you very much, TED-ed! It's always nice to hear a foreigner pronouncing Polish surnames correctly... anecdote; Supposedly, one of the ways to get the children out of the ghetto was to hide them on a cart, among the packages.One of Sendler's friends was driving the cart.To prevent the sentries from hearing the crying of the younger children, he would always take a barking, loud dog with him so that he would drown out everything and distract the guards.I was surprised no one said about it ...
"Zegota" is shortcut of "Rada Pomocy Żydom", operates thanks to Polskie Państwo Podziemne and the polish autorities in exile.Since we share information, I decided to mention about it. :-) Have a nice day!
Great input, thanks for sharing!
People with a heart beating for others conquer every shore they set foot on.
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Thank you so much youtube!! Im currently making a prensentation about Irena Sendler and this is exactly what I needed!
this is so amazing and inspiring. we need to learn more about these heros when we study these tragedies.
stories like these are just so awesome and rare i love them, it makes me so happy, i could cry, seeing people selflessly helping less fortunate people. its almost unimaginable what everyone who experienced that had to go through💜
you know so little, it's embarrassing
Her story was taught in senior high school English textbook in Taiwan, which is why I watched this video.
Her brave and inspiring story will be remembered.
Warsaw seems full of stories of courageous defiance, and inspiring resistance. Legacies we must NEVER forget.
a bit of a scandal that when she was under consideration for a Nobel Peace Prize it was instead won by Al Gore for a slideshow
they were both liars but Als lies made more money
@@WillyEckaslike Shh 🤫
The nominees for Nobel prizes aren't released, so how are we to know that this is true? She definitely deserved this prize, though.
Fake news. While it is possible, nobody really knew if she was actually nominated or even became the runner-up for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Neither the Nobel Foundation (who has pledged to keep information involved in their decision-making a secret for five decades after each award ceremony) nor the party that supposedly nominated Irena Sendler spoke of this.
The fact is, she was one of 181 nominees in 2007. Her role was rather symbolic as she was not widely known at that time. And sadly, next year she died. (Nobel prize is awarded to a living person).
I literally started bawling with this video. So proud of her! People should talk more about her!
We need more people like her, people who are willing to die to help and protect those who can’t protect themselves
We should all strive to be as compassionate and resolute as Irena was. Thank you for sharing her story
Her story really needs to be made into a movie.
there already is one- ‘The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler’ :)
Her story is one of my favorites of the war!! The fact that she was tortured and STILL didn't give up the information, is inspiring.
This is my first time learning about her, but thank you, Ms. Sendler.
I believe as a student, we should be learning about this in school.
I do, but I guess that’s because I go to a Jewish school
We learn about this in Europe… I find it mind blowing other countries don’t talk about this. Learning about our history as humans is extremely important!
I have been watching your videos for over a year now and have learned so much, thanks TED-Ed!
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We should learn this in school! She did an amazing thing and helped so many!
The idea of my parents having to leave me for my safety breaks me, I'd rather die with them. I know that the parents and children in this story felt this but a million times worse.
I really admire these kinds of people, not just for their courage, but also their ingenuity.
Managing these kinds of operations takes a lot to keep them running and undetected, and if I were in their place, I’d had gotten caught quite quickly.
My favorite book ever is called 'Life in a Jar' and it's all about Irena Sendler! I saw this title and knew what it was about before watching!!
Heartbreaking story. And a powerful ending to remember.
i never knew about her. thank you for showing everyone her story.
You can save hundreds and thousands. But your heart will always be filled with sorrow by those who you could not save.
Wow, more of this in history books! A truly remarkable person.
It ran goosebumps all over my body. This deserves more notice and of course a movie.
Man these people make my eyes water and inspire me to do good deeds while I am alive.
She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. You'll never guess who the committee thought was more deserving than she.
Where giving one dollar to the needy is filmed and announced on video these days, this amazing lady kept this great deed to herself is exactly what the Bible meant with the words, "let your right hand know not what your left hand is doing".
God bless her soul.
This will remain as one of the most inspiring stories for me..
Simply amazing.. jaw dropping.. wonderful.. every adjective is short to describe her... Just wow
"if the past is forgotten history will repeat it self"
-someone probably
What an amazing human being! Very empathetic towards others, very giving and courageous as well.. risks her own life to save countless others.
Love the educational and inspiring content!! Thank you Ted-Ed. Please keep it up!
This person deserves the Nobel Peace Prize!!!!!
Amazing. I’ve heard about Schindler’s story and this is equally as courageous. I hope more people hear about their brave actions.
I worked on an art project about Irena Sendler for the Unsung Heroes project for the Lowell Milken Foundation. She's such an inspiration, a true upstanding citizen who doesn't crack under the pressure of surrounding bigotry
What an incredible human being, her deeds should never be forgotten.
I can't begin to imagine how painful it must have been for the parents to let their children be smuggled out of the country, without knowing what would happen to them and if they would ever meet again.
Angel without wings
5:30 that line gave me literal chills, what an amazing person
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Always brings tears to my eyes when i hear act such as this.
I have no appropriate word to praise this selfless human's bravery. Hats off to her and all those personalities who work for other's well being without any expectations.
I never knew about Irena she was incredibly brave thanks for sharing ❤️❤️
Man, imagine if the kids had gotten caught. Yikes. What brave people.
A few probably did
What both Janina and Irene did is amazing. Their story reminds me of Mr.Schindler. I now want to learn about her!
Tales of such greatness should be spoken more often.
What a hero. I never knew about this, I'm glad I watched this video
She is a hero! From what I could tell all of the kids that she saved has families and even have grandkids and great grandkids! She and many people at the time and future hero’s decades later
This gives me so much of hope for my own country India where minority communities are often discriminated against.
definitely. it may happen in our lifetime.
you have to be joking. except one notorious minority, the rest of the communities have been living absolutely happily
@@satyasowmyamudunuri1796 wonder where you got that info from
@@satyasowmyamudunuri1796 the rise of Hindu nationalism and the oppression of Punjabi farmers doesn’t seem good for minorities, man
Thank you for sharing this and using this huge flatform for such an important lesson
This story shows, that even in the worst times many people will help others and that in the end the brightness will prevail.
This is amazing