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Title
Irena Sendler (1910–2008)
Date
2021
Medium
bronze
Accession number
NG24_HC_S155
Acquisition method
funded by Institute of National Remembrance, Polish Cultural Institute, Newark and Sherwood District Council, Newark Town Council, Yad Vashem UK and private donors
Work type
Statue
Custodian
Newark and Sherwood District Council
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
26th June 2021
Access
at all times
Inscription description
on base: IRENA SENDLER 1910-2001; on plaque: IRENA SENDLER was born in 1910 in Warsaw. / She was a Polish health worker during the German Nazi occupation of / Poland 1939-45 and used her position to rescue many hundreds / of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. / She was a member of Zegota a secret organisation set up / by the Polish government-in-exile to help Jews during the occupation. / In her efforts to rescue children Irena Sendler suffered torture / and risked her own life on hundreds of occasions. / She has been recognised by the State of Israel as the / Righteous Among the Nations. / In Poland she is recognised as one of the nation’s greatest heroines.
