Remember this lady's name.
Irena
Sendler
-
who recently died at 98 years of age (May 2008),
was a 2007
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
During
WWII, Irena was given permission to work in
the
Warsaw Ghetto, as a plumbing/sewer
specialist. She had an ulterior motive.
Being German,
Irena knew what the Nazi plan was for Jews.
Irena smuggled
out infants in the bottom of a tool box she
carried in the back of her truck. She used a
burlap sack for bigger children.
She also had a
dog in the back that she trained to bark when Nazi
soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.. The
soldiers wanted nothing to do with her dog. The
barking covered noises of the infants and
children.
Irena managed
to smuggle out and save 2500 infants and
children, before she was caught! The Nazi's broke
both her legs and arms, and beat her severely.
Irena kept a
record in a jar buried under a tree in her back
yard of all the children she smuggled out.
After the war,
she tried to locate all parents that may have
survived to reunite families, but most had been
gassed.
The children
she could not reunite were placed with foster
families or adopted.
Irena was
nominated for the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al
Gore won for a slide show on Global
Warming.
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