The Irena Sendler Project warns of misinformation about Irena on Internet web sites.
The students in the project have done over 100 primary interviews, including ten visits with Irena. They have collected 4,000 pages of research, much of the research being primary. With that said, some web sites, most notable, snopes.com, have incorrect information. Snopes lists Irena as ‘Iliana,’ as being German, and that she was a plumbing and sewer specialist. Attempts to correct this information have been ignored. Other sites have corrected information. Irena told us on a visit that she went over our site with a translator and the students need to be applauded for their work.