She was tortured by Gestapo agents and suffered broken feet. In 1943, the Nazis discovered Sendler’s daring and dangerous ruse and arrested her. ![]() Sendler kept a hidden record of their birth names and where they were placed with the hope that they would some day be reunited with their own families. They were given new identities and placed with Polish families and in convents. The children were sometimes sedated and hidden inside boxes, suitcases and coffins as a means of rescuing them from their imminent deportation to death camps. Though they worked under the guise of merely attempting to prevent and contain the spread of typhus and spotted fever, Sendler and her brave cohorts emerged each time with the children of consenting Jewish parents. ![]() ![]() As a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940’s, Irena Sendler created and led a conspiracy of women who moved in and out of Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto disguised as nurses employed by the Warsaw’s Health Department.
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