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 " REMEMBER THIS WOMAN! " OR SHOULD I SAY HERO
Look at this woman - Let us never forget.
The world hasn't just become wicked...it's always been wicked.
The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving.
Irena Sendler
Died 12 May 2008 (aged 98)
Warsaw, Poland
During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a plumbing/sewer specialist.
She had an 'ulterior motive'.
She KNEW what the Nazis' plans were for the Jews (being German).
Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger children).
She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.
The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the infants' noises.
She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.
After the war, she tried to locate any parents who may have survived it and to re-unite the families.
Most had been gassed. Those children she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize .
She was not selected.
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" REMEMBER THIS WOMAN! " OR SHOULD I SAY HERO
Definitely a hero in my books. Thanks for sharing
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Of course she didn't win the Nobel Prize in 2009. That was won by someone else that people said was far more deserving ............. 
Last edited by arntufun; 12-22-2012 at 05:36 PM.
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grumpybob,
Thanks for the post. I'm downloading a movie about her from the internet now.
As for the nobel peace prize, I couldn't tell you who won or why from one year to the next. Just as long as you think of her is all that counts.
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Grumpybob were you or a parent or a relative one of those "babies"??? Just wondering.
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 Originally Posted by ThreeFeet
Grumpybob were you or a parent or a relative one of those "babies"??? Just wondering.
No. Actually I'm part German. Goes to show you that we can look at things and see them for what they were, Great in her case, Brutally terrible what the Germans were doing!!
I deleted a couple of winners from the article to keep politics out of it.
Seneca Falls/Waterloo NY is full of Womens' Rights history. The first Memorial Day celebration was here also. These types of things interest me.
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