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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
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Quoted in "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto" by Rupert Cornwell in The Independent (2008-05-14)

 

Irena Sendler

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