Irena Sendler · Irena Sendler: Jars of Names

Irena Sendler - Irena Sendler: Jars of Names

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The Polish social worker who helped smuggle children from the Warsaw ghetto — and hid their real names in jars. A memento mori obituary comic centered on Gestapo arrest, torture, and death sentence in 1943 before Żegota bribed a guard and she survived underground.

Citable Summary

Irena Sendler (1910–2008) is featured in an obituary comic about mortality, work, and what remains.
The comic centers on this mortality event: Gestapo arrest, torture, and death sentence in 1943 before Żegota bribed a guard and she survived underground.
The reader version includes image pages, a PDF, and sources including United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Jewish Women’s Archive; New York Times.

Story Notes

This comic follows Irena Sendler, The Polish social worker who helped smuggle children from the Warsaw ghetto — and hid their real names in jars.

The story turns on Gestapo arrest, torture, and death sentence in 1943 before Żegota bribed a guard and she survived underground, treating that encounter with death as the pressure point for the work that followed.

The source trail for this page includes United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Jewish Women’s Archive; New York Times.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jewish Women’s Archive
New York Times

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