This nurse headed a group of 20 women which risked their lives to help
children hiding them among Polish families, convents and orphanages
between 1940 and 1943.

The Second World War was devastating Europe at the time accompanied by the
Imperial appetite and the atrocities of Adolf Hitler and Irene meanwhile
was able to get authorization to work in a Warsaw ghetto.

The job was only a pretext to carry out her risky task. She would hide
small children at the bottom of a tool box and had a sack behind her truck
to hide the larger ones. She also had a dog which was trained to bark
when Nazi soldiers warning her that they were approaching.

This was how Irene was able to save thousands of children until the day
the Nazis caught her. The Germans surprised her and on October 20th 1943
she was detained and taken to the Pawiak prison where she was brutally
tortured. However, Irene never surrendered information on where she hid
the children.

She registered the names of all those she saved and hid them in a glass
bottle buried under a tree in her garden.

At the end of the war, Irene attempted to search for their parents but the
majority of them were killed in the gas chambers. The children that
survived were adopted by other families.

Irene, Warsaw Ghetto Angel was born on February 15th, 1910 and died in
2008 at the age of 98.

The condemnation to the genocide is more than enough reason to commemorate
a day dedicated to the victims. The United Nations proclaimed January
27th of each year World Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

On that day in 1945, the Soviet Army freed the largest Nazi concentration
camp that ever existed in Auschwithz-Birkenau, Poland.