Irena Sendler (also called Irena Sendlerowa in Polish language) (born 15 February 1910 in Warsaw, then Russian Empire) is a retired Polish Roman Catholic social worker. During World War II she was an activist of Polish Underground and Polish anti-Holocaust resistance in Warsaw, where she helped to save about 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them false documents and hiding places in individual and group children houses out of the Ghetto. Wikipedia
“When the war started, all of Poland was drowning in a sea of blood, but most of all it affected the Jewish nation. And within that nation it was the children who suffered most. That’s why we needed to give our hearts to them,” Irena Sendler in an interview with ABC News on her 97th Birthday, February, 2007.
Irena Sendler did not think of herself as a hero. She claimed no credit for her actions. “I could have done more,” she said. “This regret will follow me to my death.” She has been honored by international Jewish organizations - in 1965 she accorded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem organization in Jerusalem and in 1991 she was made an honorary citizen of Israel. Irena Sendler was awarded Poland’s highest distinction, the Order of White Eagle, in Warsaw Monday Nov. 10, 2003, and she was announced as the 2003 winner of the Jan Karski award for Valor and Courage. She has officially been designated a national hero in Poland and schools are named in her honor. Annual Irena Sendler days are celebrated throughout Europe and the United States. The Holocaust, Crimes, Heroes and Villains
Congratulations on Not Winning the Nobel Prize
Greg Gutfeld, FoxNews
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday morning and I’d like to congratulate Irena Sendler.
I want to congratulate her, because she didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead it went to Al Gore, the guy who invented the Internet.
Nobel Committee Bypassed Holocaust Savior for Al Gore
Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters
As media do a victory lap over Friday’s Nobel Peace Prize announcement, it seems a metaphysical certitude that few Americans are aware of the other 180 nominees for the award besides the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore.
A WWII Hero That History Almost Forgot - Hero Passed Over for Gore by Nobel Committee
Webloggin
Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of her; today’s Western press seems loathe to cover inconvenient stories of heroes who risked life and limb to save the Jews from the murderous hands of the Nazis. Compound that with the fact that this is a story that involves Catholic charity and you have all the elements necessary to relegate her accomplishments to a passing reference somewhere in the back of a newspaper, never again to inconvenience the Holocaust deniers or those who prefer to remember the war through the prism of Hollywood’s warped lens.
The Irena Sendler Project
Irena Sendler was one of 180 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize. But she didn’t win. Instead the award went to the producer of a Global Warming Crockumentary that is full of misinformation.
But what can you expect from a committee that honored Mikhail Gorbechev, Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat?
Maybe Ms. Sendler won after all.