Oct 16 2007
Do you know who Irena Sendler is? You should.
She was an activist of Polish Underground and Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw, a courageous woman who was responsible for saving the lives of 2500 children in the brutality of Hitler’s regime.
During the early 1940’s was a Catholic social worker who had gone into the Warsaw ghetto to rescue Jewish kids who were destined either to starve there, or die in death camps. She would sneak the kids past Nazi guards, sometimes hiding them in body bags, or would provide them with false documents - inevitably getting them to Polish families for adoption, or hiding them in convents or orphanages. She also made a list of the children’s real names, put them in a jar and buried them, so that some day she could dig them up and find the kids to tell them their true names.
Arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo, she was severely tortured and sentenced to death. She was saved her by bribing the German guards on the way to her execution. Officially, she was listed on public bulletin boards as among those executed.
Even in hiding, she continued her work for the Jewish children
She’s now 97, living in a nursing home in Poland.
She has been honored by international Jewish organizations - in 1965 she accorded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem organization in Jerusalem and in 1991 she was made an honorary citizen of Israel.
She was awarded Poland’s highest distinction, the Order of White Eagle, in Warsaw Monday Nov. 10, 2003, and she was announced as the 2003 winner of the Jan Karski award for Valor and Courage.
She has officially been designated a national hero in Poland and schools are named in her honor. Annual Irena Sendler days are celebrated throughout Europe, and in a few places here.
She was also a candidate for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
She is the woman Al Gore and the officials in Oslo screwed out of deserved recognition for saving lives at risk of her own, so they could further the Alarmist Machine led by Al Gore in some political dance.
