A video reenactment of Irens'a work.

Irena died on May 12, 2008. During world war two she went to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumber and as a metal worker. She had a special motive for this. She suspected the Nazis plan was to exterminate the Jews. Irena was Polish and she did not share the Nazi psychosis. Irena hid children in her tool bags and transported them in vehicles . She used larger bags for the bigger children. She used a dog which would bark when the German soldiers confronted her at the entrance and exits of the ghetto. The soldiers did not act against the dog, and the barking was able to mask the noise made by the children. She saved 2,500 children during this period. The Nazis captured her and broke her arms and legs trying to find out how the children were escapeing. She never revealed who had helped her.

Irena kept all the names of the children she had helped leave the Ghetto in a glass jar she had buried behind a tree at the bottom of a garden. After the war she tried to locate all the parents who had survived to help them reunite with their families. The majority of parents had been exterminated. The rescued children were placed in foster care or were adopted by families. This Email was launched to make a chain with the memory of the 20 million Russians, the 10 million Christians, the 6 million Jews and the 1900 catholic priests who were massacred or assassinated. We hope that this EMAIL will be read by more than 40 million people in the whole world! Do not destroy it! It will take just one minute for you to send it on.

In 2008 Irene was nominated for the Noble peace prize but did not receive it. This lead to the feeling that the most deserving are often overlooked in favor of a more spectacular candidate.