Photo of Irena Sendler during a ceremony at which she was awarded with the Order of Smile, in Warsaw, Poland. The attention tires Irena Sendler sometimes. She never sought credit for smuggling 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto anyway. Not for risking execution to save other people´s children, or holding out under torture by the Nazis, or enduring decades as a nonperson under the communist regime that followed. Ver más.