Irena Sendler Quotes

7 Sourced Quotes

Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.

Irena Sendler

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

Irena Sendler

Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

Irena Sendler

I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death.

Irena Sendler

Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.

Irena Sendler

I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.

Irena Sendler

I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.

Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler

Creative Commons

Born: February 15, 1910

Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98)

Bio: Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska), also referred to as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland, nom de guerre "Jolanta" was a Polish nurse, humanitarian and social worker who served in the Polish Underground in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II.

Irena Sendler on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote

Polish Nurse Quotes

20th-century Nurse Quotes

20th-century Women