And now:
The Irena Sendler Project
Irena Sendler, Saviour of Jews
Posted on 03/29/2006 8:21:34 AM PST by lizol
Irena Sendler Awards
Irena Sendler is one of the unsung heroes of World War Two. Now 96, she saved two and a half thousand Jewish children from the Holocaust in Nazi occupied Poland. This March sees the inaugural awards named after her for Polish teachers of the events of the Holocaust.
Report by Michal Kubicki
28.03.06
The Polish Association of the Children of the Holocaust recently established an award named after this remarkable woman. It is to be presented annually to teachers who have made teaching about the Holocaust their mission. The Irena Sendler awards have been presented for the first time.
The Polish recipient of the award is Roman Szuchta, a history teacher in one of Warsaw’s high schools
We cannot stay idle in the face of evil. We have to react to all manifestations of evil around us and for me and my students this is the important lesson from the Holocaust.
The other recipient of the Irena Sendler Award is Norman Conard from Kansas, USA. Several years ago, he brought to the attention of his students, Protestant girls, a Catholic woman from Poland who saved Jewish children. This led to several visit to Poland by American students and the presentation of a documentary play entitled Life in a Jar. Why such title? Irena Sendler kept the only record of the identities of the children in jars buried beneath an apple tree in a neighbor’s back yard, hoping she could someday dig up the jars. Locate the children and inform them about their past.
Irena Sendler has touched the future with her life. This award represents the extraordinary person who was so brave and courageous during the Holocaust. For me, there can be no pinnacle higher than that to be here today and be with another teacher from Poland, who is a very special person. We’ve known Irena for many years and I just feel great joy that I can be in Poland and can share this award with her.
Irena Sendler presented the awards to the two teachers in a private ceremony at her apartment. She did not attend the main event hosted by the Polish Foreign Ministry. For its spokesman Pawel Dobrowolski she is among the greatest Poles of our time.
She is one of those unknown Polish heroes. She deserves to be perhaps as famous as Copernicus and Chopin, even more perhaps because she risked her life for something that was not wholly acceptable, even within the Polish society. People watch Schindler’s List and they think that this was the ultimate sacrifice. Her sacrifice – saving 2, 500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto – went further and much beyond that. That’s why we are proud and happy that she is still with us. She is 96, with a bright mind, so bright as to establish this wonderful award.
Renata Skotnicka Zajdman travelled all the way from Montreal to attend the ceremony
I survived the Warsaw Ghetto thanks to the ¯egota Organization and Irena Sendler’s friends. She worked in a climate of hate, indifference, hostility and she was working when honesty was a crime and decency was punished. She is still my hero.
For the Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich, Irena Sendler is among those people who saved the soul of Europe.
People like Irena Sendler saved the soul of Europe when so many people were quiet. The horror of the Holocaust is that very few people did it but many people were silent. Irena Sendler was never silent.
After the war, Irena Sendler dug up the jars and used the notes to track down the 2, 500 children she placed with adoptive families in order to reunite them with their relatives. Most of them lost their families in Nazi death camps. Pursued by the Gestapo, Irena Sendler miraculously survived the war. Her wartime children come to visit her often and are delighted to find her in good form.
And now:
The Irena Sendler Project
Irena Sendler, Saviour of Jews
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She is a great woman of valor!
She is definitely.
A pitty, that Spielerg didn't know her story.
Maybe he would have made "A Sendler's List".
His brains have been so addled of late, I would prefer another film maker to do it. It is, imho, a movie that should be made.
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Thank for posting this information on this great lady.
Forget Spielberg, Andrzej Wajda is a much better choice. I just wish he could have done "The Pianist" instead of that pedophile Polanski.
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