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Avoid reading?
Have poor comprehension? Your child can have A Polish physician, Dr. Juliusz Majkowski, had made the
Skip words or re-read lines? 20/20 eyesight, ghetto passes possible. He was also a part of Dr. Radlinska’s cir-
Have a tracking problem? yet lack the cle from the Polish Free University and, conveniently, he was in
Close or cover one eye? visual skills charge of the Urban Sanitation Works of the Warsaw municipal-
Complain of headaches? critical for reading. ity. He was responsible for combating the spread of epidemic
Take forever to do homework? diseases beyond the ghetto. He added the names of Irena and
Have history of concussion Find out if an undiagnosed three of her friends, Irka, Jadwiga, and Jaga, to the list of au-
vision problem is keeping thorized health workers able to enter the ghetto. The Germans
©The Advertiser 410-764-3787 your child from achieving were terrified of being infected, so they left the job of health and
to full potential. sanitation to more “dispensable” Polish people. The papers were
perfectly legal, even if the sanitation job was a fiction.
Major Medical insurance may
cover testing and treatment. Conditions in the ghetto were horrible. Irena had to step over
the dead bodies of children whenever she walked in the ghetto.
Visit www.VLCA.com to sign up for Irena’s Jewish friends inside the ghetto were all idealistic young
our FREE monthly seminars. people and they organized various means to help sustain life
and health, a losing proposition. Irena smuggled in medicine,
CaVeniinndstiPoeCirnokselTuLshomvecilbralaeitapeyd money and whatever she could, even though the penalty for
helping a Jew was summary execution on the spot.
Dr. Michael Kotlicky Saving a Jewish Child
One day, Irena’s boss. Irka Schultz, was walking slowly away
Developmental Optometrist ,ca rnua from the ghetto when she heard a faint sound. It was the sound
410-730-5808 • www.vlca.com of quiet scraping and a child sniffling disconsolately. Irka fell
to her knees and took off her gloves to get a better grip on the
8827 Columbia 100 Pkwy Columbia, MD 21045 manhole cover. Irka peered inside. The stench made her eyes
water. She saw a small child’s face, etched in fear and hunger,
peering back at her. The child was too frail to climb out of the
hole alone. Irka saw a scrap of paper on the child’s filthy cloth-
ing. It had only one number on it, the child’s age, and a moth-
er’s plea for someone to help her daughter.
As they walked towards the shadows of a side street, Irka felt
how hot and thin the child’s hand was. She needed a doctor.
Irka took her to the orphanage on Nowogrodzka Street. Irena
Sendler had already put a system in place for this kind of situ-
ation. She would clean up the child as best she could and ring
Father Boduen’s Children’s Home and say, “Can I stop by today
to drop off that coat I borrowed?” The word “today” meant it
was an emergency.
At this point, the mass deportations had not yet begun, but
there were many children who somehow got over to the Aryan
side to find food and, perhaps, safety. By early spring, 1942, Ire-
na Sendler was no longer occasionally helping Jews locate the
paperwork that they needed to “disappear” into the city. A lucky
break in the autumn of 1941 had shown them a new way to do
it. The women had made contact with a local priest in the dis-
tant city of Lwow, whose parish church had burned down along
with all its records. The priest offered to give them his remain-
ing cache of blank birth certificates, which now could not be
cross-checked by German authorities. Irka made the dangerous
journey to fetch them. Lwow was about to have an explosion in
its birth rate.
Irena did everything she could so that no Jewish child would
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Avoid reading?
Have poor comprehension? Your child can have A Polish physician, Dr. Juliusz Majkowski, had made the
Skip words or re-read lines? 20/20 eyesight, ghetto passes possible. He was also a part of Dr. Radlinska’s cir-
Have a tracking problem? yet lack the cle from the Polish Free University and, conveniently, he was in
Close or cover one eye? visual skills charge of the Urban Sanitation Works of the Warsaw municipal-
Complain of headaches? critical for reading. ity. He was responsible for combating the spread of epidemic
Take forever to do homework? diseases beyond the ghetto. He added the names of Irena and
Have history of concussion Find out if an undiagnosed three of her friends, Irka, Jadwiga, and Jaga, to the list of au-
vision problem is keeping thorized health workers able to enter the ghetto. The Germans
©The Advertiser 410-764-3787 your child from achieving were terrified of being infected, so they left the job of health and
to full potential. sanitation to more “dispensable” Polish people. The papers were
perfectly legal, even if the sanitation job was a fiction.
Major Medical insurance may
cover testing and treatment. Conditions in the ghetto were horrible. Irena had to step over
the dead bodies of children whenever she walked in the ghetto.
Visit www.VLCA.com to sign up for Irena’s Jewish friends inside the ghetto were all idealistic young
our FREE monthly seminars. people and they organized various means to help sustain life
and health, a losing proposition. Irena smuggled in medicine,
CaVeniinndstiPoeCirnokselTuLshomvecilbralaeitapeyd money and whatever she could, even though the penalty for
helping a Jew was summary execution on the spot.
Dr. Michael Kotlicky Saving a Jewish Child
One day, Irena’s boss. Irka Schultz, was walking slowly away
Developmental Optometrist ,ca rnua from the ghetto when she heard a faint sound. It was the sound
410-730-5808 • www.vlca.com of quiet scraping and a child sniffling disconsolately. Irka fell
to her knees and took off her gloves to get a better grip on the
8827 Columbia 100 Pkwy Columbia, MD 21045 manhole cover. Irka peered inside. The stench made her eyes
water. She saw a small child’s face, etched in fear and hunger,
peering back at her. The child was too frail to climb out of the
hole alone. Irka saw a scrap of paper on the child’s filthy cloth-
ing. It had only one number on it, the child’s age, and a moth-
er’s plea for someone to help her daughter.
As they walked towards the shadows of a side street, Irka felt
how hot and thin the child’s hand was. She needed a doctor.
Irka took her to the orphanage on Nowogrodzka Street. Irena
Sendler had already put a system in place for this kind of situ-
ation. She would clean up the child as best she could and ring
Father Boduen’s Children’s Home and say, “Can I stop by today
to drop off that coat I borrowed?” The word “today” meant it
was an emergency.
At this point, the mass deportations had not yet begun, but
there were many children who somehow got over to the Aryan
side to find food and, perhaps, safety. By early spring, 1942, Ire-
na Sendler was no longer occasionally helping Jews locate the
paperwork that they needed to “disappear” into the city. A lucky
break in the autumn of 1941 had shown them a new way to do
it. The women had made contact with a local priest in the dis-
tant city of Lwow, whose parish church had burned down along
with all its records. The priest offered to give them his remain-
ing cache of blank birth certificates, which now could not be
cross-checked by German authorities. Irka made the dangerous
journey to fetch them. Lwow was about to have an explosion in
its birth rate.
Irena did everything she could so that no Jewish child would
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