Jack Mayer: Separating children from their parents

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jack Mayer, MD, MPH, of Middlebury, a Vermont primary care pediatrician and the author of “Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project” and “Before the Court of Heaven.”
In 1942 a Polish Catholic social worker, Irena Sendler, organized a network of nine other social workers and a group of young Catholic and Jewish liaisons, mostly women, to rescue 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Parents were desperate