On Oct. 20, 1943, six months after the failed Warsaw ghetto uprising, Ms. Sendler was arrested by the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo.
She was tortured, her arms and legs broken, but she refused to give up the names of those she had saved, and she was scheduled for execution.
However, members of the resistance managed to bribe a Gestapo officer and she escaped, officially listed as dead, and hid for the rest of the war.
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Ms. Sendler has said she does not consider herself a heroine.
"I still have a bad conscience for having done so little," she has said.
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