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In occupied Warsaw, Irena Sendler — working under the alias “Jolanta” — turned social-work skills and fragile bureaucratic access into a life-saving rescue network for Jewish children. This episode examines the logistics of rescue: forged papers, false identities, convents and orphanages, coded lists, and the grave risks that made every name a potential death sentence. Arrested and tortured in 1943, Sendler refused to betray the children; underground networks bribed officials to free her and she continued the work. The story shows how quiet competence, records kept in code, and organized resistance preserved memory and made survival possible.
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