Woman who saved kids from Holocaust dies (Irena Sendler)

msnbc ^ | 5/12/2008 | Associated Press

[Ann Archy]

WOW!!! She had a DIRECT ticket to HEAVEN!! God Bless her!!

[uglybiker]

I have the feeling she didn't care.

True heros don't do it for the accolades.

[TAdams8591]

Prayers for the soul of Irena Sendler, a larger than life hero, who most assuredly received a hero's welcome in heaven.

[Ladysmith]

From Wikipedia: In 1965, she was recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations, which was confirmed in 1983 by the Israeli Supreme Court.

Far worthier recognition than what the Nobel Peace Prize has become.

Needless to say, the best recognition with be from Our Lord Himself.

[TAdams8591]

A tearfully sad story for the Ulma family, no doubt.

Their self-sacrificing effort was so contrary to the modern day notion of enabling evil to feed one's family.

Thank you for the story and the pictures.

[1rudeboy]

"The term 'hero' irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little," Sendler said in one of her last interviews.
Reuters.

[Night Hides Not]

True heros don't do it for the accolades.

Spot on.

[Wilhelm Tell]

It makes one wonder how many decent, brave people were killed and no one survived to remember their names. But God knows their names and has given them something better than the Nobel Prize.

[Girlene]

That is Amazing Grace. May her family be comforted in knowing the generations of hope she saved for this world. What is the Jewish saying? "Save one life, save the world".

More from this article, Irena Sendler

...."In hopes of one day uniting the children with their families - most of whom perished in the Nazis' death camps - Sendler wrote the children's real names on slips of paper that she kept at home.

When German police came to arrest her in 1943, an assistant managed to hide the slips, which Sendler later buried in a jar under an apple tree in an associate's yard. Some 2,500 names were recorded."....

...."Despite the Yad Vashem honor, Sendler was largely forgotten in her homeland. Only in her final years, confined to a nursing home, did she finally become one of Poland's most respected figures, with President Lech Kaczynski and other politicians backing a campaign that put her name forward for the Nobel Peace Prize.

That effort came after her name was brought to the world's attention in 2000 by a group of U.S. schoolgirls from Uniontown, Kan., who wrote a short play about her bravery based on historic records called "Life in a Jar."

It went on to garner international attention, and has been performed more than 200 times in the United States, Canada and Poland.".....

[Girlene]

Miracle Ping. More from this article, Irena Sendler

......"Under the pretext of inspecting the ghetto's sanitary conditions during a typhoid outbreak, Sendler and her assistants went inside in search of children who could be smuggled out and given a chance of survival by living as Catholics.

Babies and small children were smuggled out in ambulances and in trams, sometimes wrapped up as packages. Teenagers escaped by joining teams of workers forced to labor outside the ghetto. They were placed in families, orphanages, hospitals or convents."........

[Peace Is Coming]

What a wonderful lady.

[rfp1234]

R.I.P. to a great person, what a strong lady and what an outrage she didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Northern Yankee]

Thanks for the ping!

A truly marvelous woman, who's great faith served her well.

I know we stand humbled before such great acts of courage. She will continue to inspire for generations.

I am guessing she never won the Nobel Peace Prize.

God Bless this woman!

[labette]

“Well done thou good and faithful servant!”

[reagan_fanatic]

What an amazing and wonderful woman. May God bless her in Eternity.

[bvw]

Hooray for the executioner!

[Psycho_Bunny]

I don’t get it.

[bvw]

If the executioner hadn’t accepted the bribe, the woman would have been killed.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I’m glad I asked. I thought you meant something else entirely and was about to jump down your throat.