Sendler is consitered a Utopian hero because she risked her life so that others could have and enjoy life. Utopian heroes are those that further life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that advance human rights significantly, or that further the just recognition of the necessities of human life as law.
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Poland honors woman who saved 2,500 Jews By RYAN LUCAS, Associated Press Writer
WARSAW, Poland – A 97-year-old woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust was honored by parliament Wednesday at a ceremony during which Poland’s president said she deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sendler was cited for organizing the “rescue of the most defenseless victims of the Nazi ideology — the Jewish children.”
Sendler led about 20 helpers who smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto to safety between 1940 and 1943, placing them in Polish families, convents or orphanages.