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gamahuche1 year, 6 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, 6 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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    HannibalBarca1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    And was not Oskar Schindler honoured by the Jewish State by putting his name in the "Walk of Life" i think it is called? If so will or is this woman also honoured in such a way.....she truly deserves it
    
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      gamahuche1 year, 6 months ago
      
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      In 2006, Poland and Israel recommended Sendlerowa for the Nobel Peace Prize and the latter awarded her the title "Righteous Among the Nations".
      Last year, the Polish parliament passed a unanimous resolution honouring her for organizing the "rescue of the most defenceless victims of the Nazi ideology - the Jewish children."
      [from the "topnews" story which I referenced above.]
      
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