Posted on 05/16/2008 10:12:46 PM PDT by Entrepreneur
I am ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Irena Sendler, whose obituary appeared in this morning’s paper. Hers is an awesomely humbling story, even by the standards of her heroic generation.
A Polish Catholic, she spirited some 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto, displaying casual and extraordinary courage. She kept a list of the children she had saved, hoping one day to reunite them with their parents – although, in the event, almost all lost their families in Treblinka. In 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and tortured. Her legs and feet were broken, but she refused to give up her list. She was sentenced to death, but rescued, whereupon – almost unbelievably – she went back to work.
Here, though, is the sentence that leapt off the page at me: “Last year she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, eventually won by Al Gore.” Al Gore!...
...making a film is not the same thing as donning a yellow star and smuggling babies past enemy soldiers...
..."I continue to have qualms of conscience that I did so little. I could have done more. This regret will follow me to my death.” There is a haunting sincerity to that statement. You can’t imagine Al Gore saying any such thing, can you?
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Albore simply behaved the way political whores behave.
He is contemptible, but the people most to blame in this matter are those on the committee that awarded the prize to him and that IPCC while passing over this astonishing saintly woman.
Obviously the PC blowhards of the Nobel committee cared far more about rewarding sanctimonious political hacks of dubious merit than they did about recognizing Irena Sendler, one of the most wonderful humans ever. Even worse, they had to know she had not too too long to live and that they could always make the award to Gore and the IPCC in any of the upcoming years. Clearly the incredible deeds of Irena Sendler just don’t weigh on the scales of the posturing frauds on the Nobel Peace Prize committee.
And, in this same “Nobel” connection, it’s hard to believe who has received the Nobel Prize for Literature—like hack Toni Morrison. Thomas Keneally, who wrote Schindler’s List , and a few dozen other great novels of international stature, apparently has become invisible.
Algore’s crap is only leading us to war and famine.
For one to have a sense of shame, one must first possess a conscience. Gore lacking the latter, can’t possible have the former.
Of course this is a typical trait amongst left wing lunatics like Gore.
Thank you, Very nice info! :-)
He is contemptible,
A redundant statement if there ever was one.
but the people most to blame in this matter are those on the committee that awarded the prize to him and that IPCC while passing over this astonishing saintly woman.
Agreed
Obviously the PC blowhards of the Nobel committee cared far more about rewarding sanctimonious political hacks of dubious merit than they did about recognizing Irena Sendler, one of the most wonderful humans ever. Even worse, they had to know she had not too too long to live and that they could always make the award to Gore and the IPCC in any of the upcoming years.
How damning when stated this way!
Don't hold your breath waiting for justice from mortals. God, and God alone can and will right the wrongs of this world.
if al gore had a brain - he would figure a way to hang himself.....that would take a heart ...to rid the world of dross & offal he is....but it also would take courage....of course of which....he has none!!!!
The shysters and fools who give out the Nobel prize are not worthy to have washed her feet.
Al Gore can go to hell and take his Nobel Piece of $h!+ prize with him , Irena on the other hand shall have the wind beneath her wings for eternity as she soars with the angels in a place called heaven .
To experience shame one must first be moral.
They missed Saddam. Maybe he get one posthumously.
The irrationality of giving the Peace Prize to Al Gore over this woman can only be explained with one word - Anti-Semitism. After all, this lady was saving Jewish children. Maybe if they had been Palestinian kids, she would have gotten the prize.
Nobel prizes for anything other than science are junk. Give the committee time, and they’ll figure out a way to bastardize science also. First potential candidate: Nobel prize for physics - global warming “modeling. Of course, should that happen, those physicists that actually got As in their courses will rise up and smite the D recipiant (that’s that one that got into global warming).
Considering the kind of thugs and leftist hustlers that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to in recent decades, I'd say the Nobel committee is not worthy of Irena.
They have turned the award into a joke.
How in the world can anyone, with any ounce of conscience, feel good about that award when the person really deserving of it is shunned?!
The whole damned thing is a sham.
God Bless this woman and the beautiful work she has done.
She's the real heroine of this whole thing.
http://www.kshs.org/teachers/historyday/uniontown.htm
“Holocaust and Life in a Jar”
Five young women—Gabrielle Bradbury, Elizabeth Cambers, Sabrina Coons, Megan Stewart, and Janice Underwood of Uniontown High School, Uniontown, Kansas, made an incredible discovery in their History Day class during the 2000-2001 year. This discovery would change their lives and that of a very special woman.
They discovered a magazine clipping with the headline, “Irena Sendler saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942-43.” Their teacher, Milken educator Norman Conard, wondered if there was some mistake. He was unfamiliar with this woman's story. Conard, whose classroom motto is “he who changes one person, changes the world entire,” encouraged the girls to pursue the topic searching for primary and secondary sources.
The students learned that Irena Sendler had been a non-Jewish social worker and was head of the children's section in the Polish underground movement known as Zegot during World War II. As a social worker, Sendler had access to the Warsaw Ghetto. Sendler risked her life to save the lives of thousands of Jewish children by coaxing Jewish parents and grandparents to relinquish their children to her. She knew that the Jewish children would, most likely, die in the Ghetto or in the death camps. She established a plan to smuggle the children past Nazi guards by putting them in body bags, saying they were dead or had typhus. Once outside the Ghetto, she found Polish families to adopt them.
Between 1942 and 1943, Sendler was able to rescue 2,500 children. She saved a list of the children's real names, stored them in jars for safe keeping, and buried the jars in her garden. She knew one day she would be able to dig up the jars and identify the children.
On October 20, 1943, Sendler was captured by the Nazi's and beaten severely. The Polish underground eventually was able to bribe a guard for her release, and she went into hiding.
The Uniontown students searched for the final resting place of Irena and discovered she was still alive at the age of 91 and living in poverty in Warsaw, Poland. They began to collect money for Irena calling their collection jar, “Life in a Jar.” They contacted some of the people Irena had saved.
For their History Day project, the students wrote a performance in which they portrayed the life of Irena Sendler. “Holocaust and Life in a Jar” received first place in the Senior Group Performance at the 2000 Kansas History Day competition in May 2000 and earned them a trip that June to National History Day near Washington, D.C. The students also performed the drama for numerous clubs and civic groups in the community. People were so inspired by the project that they sponsored an “Irena Sendler Day.”
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous in New York City offered assistance in sending the money the students had raised to a Polish bank in Warsaw for Irena. The students corresponded with Irena enlisted the help of a Polish student, who was attending a local college, to translate for them. “Your performance and work is continuing the effort I started over fifty years ago, you are my dearly beloved girls,” wrote Irena. The students shared the letters with universities, historical societies, and the Chicago and New York Jewish Foundations.
C-SPAN, National Public Radio, and CBS, became interested in the story. Conard was contacted for the book and film rights to their story. The students were invited to perform in Washington, D.C. and before a Jewish foundation in New York City. They have become knowledgeable on subjects such as the Holocaust, World War II, and the Polish underground.
In January 2001, they met John Shuchart, a Jewish educator and businessman, who told the girls he would raise the money and send them to Warsaw. He raised the money within 24 hours. The group traveled to Poland in May 2001 for an emotional meeting with the 91-year-old woman and heroine to the students. Sendler told the students she was just an ordinary person, not a hero. “I want the Jewish community to know that there was resistance and a spirit among the Jews in the Ghetto.”
The students continue their performances and research and correspond with Sendler and those she rescued. They have established an e-mail address isendler@hotmail.com. Three other students have joined the group to provide assistance.
“The story of Irena Sendler had a profound effect not only on those who have heard the story, but on the storytellers as well,” said Conard. “The girls regularly write on their homework papers notes such as, ‘I'm changing the world’ and ‘Irena's story must be told.’ I've traveled with the girls to numerous performances and watched the great emotion that pours out of the audience during their presentation. They have literally taken our class motto and brought it to life.”
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