Armed with a clipboard and a mastery of paperwork, social worker Irena Sendler smuggled thousands of children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. This episode reveals her story as a master class in administrative subversion rather than kinetic resistance.

We trace her radicalization at the University of Warsaw, how she used sanitary-inspector passes to enter the ghetto, the buried jars recording children's true identities, her arrest and torture, and her complex postwar life.

• Defacing her grade card to protest segregated seating
• Using sanitary-inspector passes to enter the Warsaw Ghetto
• Smuggling children out via ambulances and convents
• Burying jars with children's real names to preserve their identities
• Her arrest, torture, bribed escape, and postwar recognition