[TurboZamboni]

another reminder why the Noble Peace prize is a joke...

Irena Sendler v. Al Gore

http://www.merlinsilk.com/2009/09/04/irena-sendler-v-al-gore/

[Yaelle]

My beautiful father was one of those children. There must have been thousands. A lot of us would not be here today if it weren’t for loving people of all faiths who stepped up to save them.

[Daffynition]

Stories like this always make me weep.

Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She drew a picture of "home"

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What a powerful story. I put the book on my reading list. Too bad it’s not up on Amazon in advance of its English edition.

[ansel12]

God only knows how much larger and faster built it would have been if half of the men creating it, had been replaced with females.

I guess we will find out those things in our next major war, after we learn Chinese.

[Popman]

Wow...what a story...

[SuziQ]

One of my husband's major professors in his Graduate Studies was one of those children. He is Polish, and his parents realized what was happening and tried to get the family out. They realized that they could not leave with the children, because they would be stopped and probably sent to a camp. They went to a local convent and asked the nuns if they could keep their son until they could return for him. The nuns agreed immediately, so Naftali spent his years from age 5 to 11 hidden by the nuns.

He remembered them as being very kind, but firm, and when, happily, his parents returned for him after the war, the sisters were extremely sad to see him go. He is very grateful to those nuns who truly did risk their lives to save him and the other Jewish children hidden with him.