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Please share this to honor the sacrifice and courage of this fine human being who gave so much and saved so many.

http://www.irenasendler.org/

1 posted on 01/19/2014 4:19:09 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: BulletBobCo

Your answer; Polish and Jewish.

You see on even on this board bigoted remarks.


2 posted on 01/19/2014 4:21:51 PM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: BulletBobCo

It’s because she wasn’t a terrorist or a pseudo scientist.


3 posted on 01/19/2014 4:23:24 PM PST by SkyDancer ("How Can People Ask Forgiveness If They Won't Forgive Others?")
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To: BulletBobCo

Think about the courage that took. Simply awesome


4 posted on 01/19/2014 4:25:55 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: BulletBobCo

There’s another story about Irena Sendler that few know about:

Her life in Communist Poland was not a happy one. In 1949, she was brutally interrogated by the then Communist security service (UB) for allegedly hiding members of Polish underground organization (AK, Home Army). She lost her baby after that. Before, she managed to hand over her “jar archive” with 2,500 names of the Jewish children her team had saved through Adolf Bermann, the chairman of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Under German occupation, “Zegota” included Jewish organizations, represented by Adolf Bermann and Leon Feiner. The Council for Aid to Jews “Zegota” was the only underground organization that was run jointly by Jews and Polish gentiles, representing a variety of political movements. They helped at least 4,000 Polish Jews, mainly in Warsaw, and both the Polish and the Jewish underground was able to reach with aid to some 8,500 of the 28,000 Jews hiding in Warsaw, and to about 1,000 trying to survive elsewhere in Poland.

After the war, Irena Sendler continued her work as social welfare official and director of vocational schools, but she and her family couldn’t avoid harassment from the then Communist authorities. She never spoke in public about her wartime heroic deeds, having chosen a private life, dedicated to her family and friends. The memories of the past haunted her. As Mrs. Sendler recalled later, she and her co-workers visiting the Warsaw ghetto saw starving children, abandoned corpses and Nazi SS officers using skulls for target practice – “I saw all this and a million other things that a human eye should never have to see” she later said, “and it has stayed with me for every second of every day that God granted me to live.”

The Polish Communist authorities were not interested to reward her for the help rendered to Jewish children during the war. But the Jews did not forget. In 1965, Irena Sendler became one of the first “Righteous Gentiles” honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem for wartime heroics. Polish authorities did not allow her to go to Israel to be praised there. Only in 1983, she could collect the award (a medal “Righteous among the Nations”), confirmed by the Knesset. In 1991, she became an honorary citizen of Israel.

Earlier, in 1968, when the Communist authorities cracked down on Polish Jews, calling them “Zionists” and expelling some 20,000 from Poland, Mrs. Sendler announced she was ready to hide Jews again. For her statement, the authorities expelled her children from the Warsaw University.


5 posted on 01/19/2014 4:28:52 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: BulletBobCo

God will see that her reward is everlasting.


8 posted on 01/19/2014 4:30:06 PM PST by mware
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To: BulletBobCo

C'mon. It's not every day you see a Crazed Sex Poodle.

10 posted on 01/19/2014 4:33:22 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Because the Nobel peace prize is meaningless. There is no other explanation.


11 posted on 01/19/2014 4:36:42 PM PST by Yaelle
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Why would cryto-nazis award an anti-nazi with the Nobel Prize? What fellowship hath light with dark?


13 posted on 01/19/2014 4:51:24 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: BulletBobCo
The Peace Prize ceased to mean anything after Carter/Arafat won. Yassar Arafat, the father of modern terrorism.

Once the Price committee started awarding the prize to pond scum, it lost its meaning.

Thanks for posting this. I never heard of her.

17 posted on 01/19/2014 5:00:04 PM PST by LouAvul (In a state of disbelief as to how liberals destroyed America in a mere 40 years.)
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To: BulletBobCo

I had never heard of this courageous woman. Thank you for posting.


18 posted on 01/19/2014 5:02:12 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

ROTFL! Great explanation of how the Nobel prize is a farce for commie libs.

19 posted on 01/19/2014 5:03:56 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where are Holder's "po folks" getting the I.D.s to sign up for ObamaCare?)
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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
22 posted on 01/19/2014 5:12:33 PM PST by boxlunch (Psalm 2)
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How She Didn’t Win A Nobel Prize Is Beyond Me

Strike 1) She was Roman Catholic.

Strike 2) She saved babies.

Strike 3) She was anti-Communist.

But as far as finishing the course and winning the crown—as St. Paul described it—we could be talking about a home run here.

23 posted on 01/19/2014 5:28:34 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: BulletBobCo
This video is called "Hitler gets mad at Al Gore's global warming hypocrisy," and in it, Hitler actually says that Irena Sendler deserved the Nobel prize instead of Al Gore:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfr37Xn9IL8

24 posted on 01/19/2014 5:30:36 PM PST by grundle
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The Nobel Poop Prize has lost all value after it was awarded to Obama and Al Gore.

What a wonderful person. She represents the good in humanity.

27 posted on 01/19/2014 5:59:00 PM PST by dhs12345
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Some give so much it makes one weep merely to hear of it.

Most give so little it makes God weep to hear of it.


30 posted on 01/19/2014 7:20:01 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: BulletBobCo

I just ran across this. Thank you for posting this story about an amazing and courageous woman.


33 posted on 02/26/2015 3:23:16 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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