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.
If Al had any decency he would have abdicated to someone who deserved it.
We passed up a chance to honor a woman who saved thousands of lives so we could celebrate a guy who wants to save penguins and polar bears, who are not even threatened.
We honored a guy who sells lies and lines his pockets with the profits generated by the fear he generates, over a woman who was tortured and sentenced to death to protect children.
This makes two awards Al should give back.
Who says our priorities are messed up?
I do.
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LSU,
Yes I have been following this. Here is someone who honestly deserves what used to be a proud momment to receive this award. She is a true hero and should be cheered for what she made happen. She saved so many children and was almost beaten to death by the gestapo,SS or what ever they were called didn’t make any difference they were still murdering thugs.
I did comment on this earlier and by giving the award to lying moron and the un total useless group have pretty much put the Nobel on par with the prize in the Cracker Jack box. It’s bad enough that it was given to Arafat and Carter but now like I said box prize.
I did read last week that after the British courts ruling that they might want the grammy back. Yeah, like they would get it out of his cold dead hands. Fat chance.
The Knucklehead of the Day award…
Today’s winner is Daiki Kameda….
This is typical, didn’t Arafat get one of those two? jimmy Carter? so Al Gore fits the mold….
I am so sick of the hypocrisy… I’ve about had it with the whole society thing, time to move to Montana and surround my self with barbed wire and several defense mechanisms and wait for the fall out…..
Nope that won’t happen, I enjoy the fight too much.