How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis | Iseult Gillespie

Irena Sendler, a social worker in Nazi-occupied Poland, risked her life to save over 2,000 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Despite being arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, she never revealed the children's identities. With the help of the resistance group Zegota, she continued her rescue efforts until the end of the war. After the war, she reconnected with many of the children she saved, though she remained humble about her actions.

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