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Irena Sendler: A German Nurse's Role In The Holocaust

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What is a job of a nurse? They are supposed help and take care of people that are sick or need assistance. What happens when you are not allowed to or banned from helping the people? In the Holocaust the German nurses were not allowed to help Jewish kids. Although they weren’t able to help this one brave and caring German nurse went out of her way to be a hero.
Irena Sendler is a nurse who was in a group called the “Resistance Movement”. She was in organizations that dealt with the Jews and she would risk her life for them. If they would have caught her and found out what she was doing, she would have been facing worse consequences. She wasn’t afraid of what the Nazis would do because at the time she was just worried about the little Jewish kids. (“Sendler.Irena.”)
The Jewish kids that the Nazis had or were taking were being hurt and murdered by Hitler and his men which were the Nazis. Irena saw that when she worked for them so she started doing secret jobs for Jewish people. Most of the people see her as a hero, but she thinks what she did was normal for a person like her because …show more content…
Irena wasn’t known because she was just a nurse, but she was a German nurse which she couldn’t help. Now Irena being Irena was going behind their back so she could help the little kids so they can have a better future. Most of those kids didn’t know and were suffering because of the Nazis and Hitler. Being a German nurse didn’t help out at all because she couldn’t do anything to help out the Jews, they had to stay away because they had to obey the Nazis. When Irena helped out with the organizations she then came more interested in the life of the Jews and what happened during the Holocaust because it was the fact that they were suffering and getting murdered so she was not letting that happened to them. When no one else could or would help them, she was there to help them out. (“Jewish

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