Woman who saved kids from Holocaust dies »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsIrena Sendler - a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities - has died. She was 98.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 5 months ago
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We hear of compassion, courage, humanity, and caring, but sometimes our words are inadequate to describe what is best about the human spirit. So it is that we cannot find words that are sufficient to relate our gratitude for this simple woman, and our awe of what she was able to accomplish.
"In 1965, Sendler became one of the first so-called Righteous Gentiles honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem for wartime heroics. Poland's communist leaders at that time would not allow her to travel to Israel; she collected the award in 1983."
Rest, Noble Spirit! We are gladdened that God loved us enough to let you live among us!
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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This is a marvellous story. I heard it on the BBC and wanted to post it but TE beat me to it.
The AP version misses some quite significant details of the story which can also be found here:
http://www.topnews.in/polish-world-war-ii-heroi...
Sendlerowa was part of the Zegota resistance movement. Together with a group of 20 helpers, she smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto in ambulances, through sewers and once under her skirt.
She then obtained forged identity cards for them and hid the children with foster families, at monasteries and orphanages.
"Irena Sendlerowa rescued the future of the Jewish people," Piotr Kadlcik, the head of the Jewish Community in Poland, told Radio Information Agency (IAR).
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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Sendlerowa made a coded list of the children's names, which she hid in her cellar, in the hope of reuniting them with their families after the war.
She was later arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, but never gave details of the resistance movement's work nor did she reveal the children's names.
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In another version of the story she buried the jar of names under an apple tree in her garden.
Her bravery was exceptional and it has to be stated that there was not much sympathy in the Polish population for the Jews.
Her action is similar in merit to that of Oskar Schindler and the less well-known story of Nicholas Winton who saved almost 700 Czech children by sending them to England by train.
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Winton.htm
He was later knighted and a film was also made about him. I had the honour of attending a ceremony in his honour in Prague when he was reunited for the first time with some of "his" children.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 5 months ago
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Shadow:
When people like her die they are not lost. I believe she is in heaven. She will return with the Lord.
But you are right we lost one strong and devoted lady.
For the love of children she suffered much. I'm sure she will be rewarded with much.
For those who tortured her. Well I hope they repented because I would not want to face God with that sin.
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blinkers1 year, 5 months ago
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This is an inspirational story, gama, and a fine thing to put on the board.
I'm sure this wonderful lady is honored by name along the "Avenue of Righteous Gentiles" which leads up to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem -- and examples like hers would help greatly in helping to temper the after-effects of the awful horrors depicted inside.
(Apologies again for my extremely unfortunate "neg" which sullies the opening comment, by Oscar, on this very serious thread).
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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It was TE's story - I just hitched a ride on it..
It was certainly my inspiration for the day.
As for your neg of Oscar - I figured that you were following a Japanese example..
I can't remember exactly how its defined but its something about perfection always needing to have some tiny flaw so as not to be pre-empting the Buddha..
SOMETHING like that!
Can you re-enlighten me on that??
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