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Lt. Governor Quinn and Holocaust Hero



Lt. Governor Pat Quinn presents a statue of President Abraham Lincoln to Ms. Irena Sendlerowa on behalf of the citizens of Illinois. Ms. Senderowa, now 97, rescued 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, placing them with Christian families.

She buried jars containing the real names and identities of the children in her neighbor's yard, so that they could learn the names of their biological families after the war.  Despite torture at the hands of the Gestapo, Ms. Senderowa refused to give up the names of the children.

"I was just doing my duty," Ms. Sendlerowa told Lt. Governor Quinn. "That is how I was raised."