FRIDAY'S GREGALOGUE: IRENA SENDLER (Who should have won the Nobel Peace Prize)

Missing from Gutfelds details about Irene Sendler:

Irene Sendler

Irena Sendler successfully smuggled almost 2,500 Jewish children to safety and gave them temporary new identities...

The Nazis became aware of Irena's activities, and on October 20, 1943 she was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo, who broke her feet and legs. She ended up in the Pawiak Prison, but no one could break her spirit. Though she was the only one who knew the names and addresses of the families sheltering the Jewish children, she withstood the torture, that crippled her for life, refusing to betray either her associates or any of the Jewish children in hiding. Sentenced to death, Irena was saved at the last minute when Zegota members bribed one of the Gestapo agents to halt the execution. She escaped from prison but for the rest of the war she was pursued by the Nazis.
After the war she dug up the jars and used the notes to track down the 2,500 children she placed with adoptive families and to reunite them with relatives scattered across Europe. But most lost their families during the Holocaust in Nazi death camps. The children had known her only by her code name Jolanta. But years later, after she was honored for her wartime work, her picture appeared in a newspaper. "A man, a painter, telephoned me," said Sendler, "`I remember your face,' he said. `It was you who took me out of the ghetto.' I had many calls like that!"

In 2007, she was nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. At a special session in Poland's upper house of Parliament, President Lech Kaczynski announced the unanimous resolution to honor Irena Sendler for rescuing "the most defenseless victims of the Nazi ideology: the Jewish children." He referred to her as a "great heroine who can be justly named for the Nobel Peace Prize. She deserves great respect from our whole nation."

Then again Al Gore did make a slide show. If only Irene made a slide show!

1 posted on 10/12/2007 1:58:37 PM PDT by Republican Red

To: Republican Red

If those idiots and Al Gore were decent human beings; she would have won the award; and since it’s really not a peace award; but a for sale and political award; I am glad she didn’t.

2 posted on 10/12/2007 2:01:19 PM PDT by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))

To: Republican Red

The Nobel Peace Prize is a sham. God bless Irene Sendler.

3 posted on 10/12/2007 2:03:26 PM PDT by khnyny (Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill)

Well, let all know that the Nobel Prize is officially irrelevant.

Pure politics.

4 posted on 10/12/2007 2:08:07 PM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=-

Blessed woman. I stand humbly in her shadow.

5 posted on 10/12/2007 2:09:47 PM PDT by Marie (Unintended consequences.)

To: Republican Red

I just made this motivational poster in your honor:

6 posted on 10/12/2007 2:12:30 PM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=-

To: Republican Red

Pathetic that that fraud Gore (and that murderer Arafat) won the prize and Sendler didn’t. As far as I’m concerned, no one from these morally twisted times on who accepts the prize can do so with a clear conscience.

7 posted on 10/12/2007 2:16:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker (Democrats are phony Americans)

Forgive me folks, but it seems I'm on a roll today:

8 posted on 10/12/2007 2:17:37 PM PDT by -=SoylentSquirrel=-

To: Republican Red

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.

...where they were raised Catholic. That horrible act disqualifies her from Nobel consideration. /sarc

9 posted on 10/12/2007 2:23:55 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)

To: -=SoylentSquirrel=-

Nice Poster!

How about putting “perceived” before quality? Or “globally correct”?

Anyway, I’m more than a bit tired of “the sky is falling” Gore!

10 posted on 10/12/2007 2:29:24 PM PDT by landerwy (Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness!)

To: landerwy; -=SoylentSquirrel=-

yes, you all should make a poster out of it! I need something to decorate my cube farm!

11 posted on 10/12/2007 3:26:25 PM PDT by no-s

To: -=SoylentSquirrel=-

12 posted on 10/12/2007 6:44:01 PM PDT by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))

To: Republican Red

Never heard of Irene Sendler until I read your post. I am now honored to know of this great woman, thanks to you. Much thanks.

13 posted on 10/13/2007 9:50:10 PM PDT by AHerald ("Be faithful to God ... do not bother about the ridicule of the foolish." - St. Pio of Pietrelcina)

If Algore had a soul he would have gave it to her.

14 posted on 10/13/2007 9:56:18 PM PDT by Brimack34

To: -=SoylentSquirrel=-

Looks like Cristopher Reeves in his superman costume - I guess looks can be deceiving. There he is, "Mr. I invented the Internet" himself...

What an arrogant, pompous, windbag!!!

15 posted on 10/14/2007 10:40:17 AM PDT by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North (If you are, as Rush would say, "A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" don't waste my time...)

To: -=SoylentSquirrel=-

Looks like Cristopher Reeves in his superman costume - I guess looks can be deceiving. There he is, "Mr. I invented the Internet" himself...

What an arrogant, pompous, windbag!!!

16 posted on 10/14/2007 10:40:42 AM PDT by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North (If you are, as Rush would say, "A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" don't waste my time...)

To: -=SoylentSquirrel=-

Sorry, now I understand where those occasional ‘double posts’ come from...

17 posted on 10/14/2007 10:42:37 AM PDT by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North (If you are, as Rush would say, "A Glittering Jewel of Colossal Ignorance" don't waste my time...)

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