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Irena Sendler was born in Otwock, near Warsaw, 111 years ago, on February 15, 1910, to Janina Karolina (née Grzybowska) and to Dr. Stanislaw Krzyzanowski, a physician and political activist of the Polish Socialist Party, who treated mostly poor Jews, free of charge. Stanislaw died in 1917, after contracting typhus, and the grateful Jewish community offered financial assistance to his widow and daughter, which was politely declined by Janina.