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 mornings 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 cant imagine Al Gore saying any such thing, can you?
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
LOL. So true.
That was great. Truly an amazing and inspiring story, not only about Irena, but the students, the businessman who raised the money to send them to Poland, well, all involved. Simply wonderful.
I guess that she pretty much signifies agape love.
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