Irena Sendler, 98, died Monday in Warsaw, Poland
The headline on page 7 of the Roanoke Times today: Holocaust Heroine Saved 2,500 Jewish Kids. Quoting from the article..."Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker with the city's welfare department when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, launching World War II. Warsaw's Jews were forced into a walled-off ghetto. Seeking to save the ghetto's children, Sendler masterminded risky rescue operations...she and her assistants ventured inside the ghetto--and smuggled out babies and small children in ambulances and in trams, sometimes wrapped up as packages.
"Records show that Sendler's team of about 20 people saved nearly 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between October 1940 and its final liquidation in April 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, shooting the residents or sending them to death camps."
She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, but did not win. That was the year Al Gore won.
"Records show that Sendler's team of about 20 people saved nearly 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between October 1940 and its final liquidation in April 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, shooting the residents or sending them to death camps."
She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, but did not win. That was the year Al Gore won.
posted by Marion | 5:04 PM
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And why did he win????? She sounds like a much more worthy recipient. She'll get her reward in heaven, and I'm sure it will mean much more than the Nobel Peace Prize.
Amy, I never thought the Nobel Peace Prize was something that could be "fixed" but apparently I was very wrong. Would you have awarded it to Gore for producing a documentary about (possible) global warming instead of to a woman who risked her life to save all those innocent children?
I'm very moved and hope she wins posthumously next time. Thanks for passing this on.
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