Most significant positive evidence
The evidence concerns sustained rescue work, exceptional courage under torture and practical efforts to preserve both life and identity.
Person
Irena Sendler
The assessment covers clandestine aid to Jews in Warsaw, rescue of children from the ghetto, creation of false identities, preservation of family records and endurance of Gestapo torture.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+98.84
Reasoned summary
Sendler combined compassion, organisation and extraordinary courage in direct opposition to genocidal persecution. Her assessed conduct belongs near the highest positive end of the scale.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
No substantiated grave ethical misconduct was identified in the assessed period. Exact child-rescue totals and individual attribution within Żegota remain uncertain.
Read the full Irena Sendler ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +99.00
- Rights and dignity
- +98.51
- Nonviolence and harm
- +100.00
- Stewardship of power
- +99.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +97.55
- Consequential legacy
- +99.00
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Irena Sendler (1939–1945)
1939–1945 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile