Jews saved as infants from Nazi Germany

[spywizard]

A Lady Named Irena Sendler

There recently was the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendler.

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 Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German).

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she also carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack, (for larger kids).

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 kids/infants noises.

During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs and 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 that may have survived it, and reunited the family.

Most, of course, had been gassed.

Those kids she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize....

She LOST.

Al Gore won for doing a slide show on Global Warming.





Irena Sendler's funeral, Warsa, Poland, May 15, 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler

[Skully44420]

that is a great story. but shows how fukked up our society is when al gore's dumbass can beat her out of a nobel prize for something that he is guilty of.

[gst528i]

wow , It's amazing how amazing people are and yet how ridiculous most of us are...

[PT]

the nobel prize is all about publicity and like most things its rigged. its insane that a moron like gore can win it over this lady who put her life on the line everyday to save lives

[Sir Lifts-a-lot]

Well. I'll tell you what. She lost the prize to Al Gore. Everyone knows about his green earth ideas and what not. His ideas are important, and to some of the masses they are 'the words of God'. For the rest of society that sees the good deads Irena has done know that she truly was a crusader of humanity. She will get her justice in a higher realm.

[Bojangles69]

She has no relevance in todays world, who cares.

[Amorphic]

She has no relevance in todays world, who cares.

lol woooooaahhhh harsh.

[Bojangles69]

Sad but true lol.

Theres about 6 million more people who have sadder stories than her and didn't live to even tell, so to me shes like the end of the titanic when they go from Kate Winslet to some old chick and you just wanna vomit.

[MuscleScience]

Sad but true lol.

Theres about 6 million more people who have sadder stories than her and didn't live to even tell, so to me shes like the end of the titanic when they go from Kate Winslet to some old chick and you just wanna vomit.

What, you think a guy that has an army of helpers research his global warming BS. Then had an army of helpers write a script and produce a shitty movie, deserves it over a women that risked life and limb to save people she didnt have to. Just ask the thousands of descendants from the children of the babies save who deserves it.

[Bojangles69]

Well for movie sakes, absolutely.

At this day & age the Holocaust is something called 'history' and global warming is something we actually need to be concerned about, or have more reason to be concerned.

So speaking on the basis of what is relevant and what is not, yeh.

[JiGGaMaN]

Well for movie sakes, absolutely.

At this day & age the Holocaust is something called 'history' and global warming is something we actually need to be concerned about, or have more reason to be concerned.

So speaking on the basis of what is relevant and what is not, yeh.

Fair enough, but how was a movie relevant in accomplishing anything at all? And if you say it helped inform people, the only people who watched it were people already interested in the subject.

[Bojangles69]

Fair enough, but how was a movie relevant in accomplishing anything at all? And if you say it helped inform people, the only people who watched it were people already interested in the subject.

Well I think the movie is more relevant to the time than it is to actual facts.

Like the Holocaust was relevant to the "jewish problem" which had nothing to do with facts.
I was already interested in global warming so I can't dispute that, but I thought the movie was informative to a level noone really would have expected.
Plus as harsh as it sounds when you compare the populations of people - people who care about some lady who saved some people during the Holocaust vs people who care or are paranoid about global warming, that the global warming problem (whether its a real problem or not like the jewish problem) more people just care about.

So Al Gore may be a political leech gaining status from peoples paranoia, but I just understand why he gained more recognition than this lady, was what I meant.

[MuscleScience]

Well I think the movie is more relevant to the time than it is to actual facts.

Like the Holocaust was relevant to the "jewish problem" which had nothing to do with facts.
I was already interested in global warming so I can't dispute that, but I thought the movie was informative to a level noone really would have expected.
Plus as harsh as it sounds when you compare the populations of people - people who care about some lady who saved some people during the Holocaust vs people who care or are paranoid about global warming, that the global warming problem (whether its a real problem or not like the jewish problem) more people just care about.

So Al Gore may be a political leech gaining status from peoples paranoia, but I just understand why he gained more recognition than this lady, was what I meant.

Maybe if he actually solved global warming then I could understand, all he did was take a bunch of known facts and present it to some figure heads of state because he was in of himself a figure head. Why do the scientist that first proposed the theory of global warming not get to share the prize. They have worked on the problem literally their entire adult life. I think Politics more than reason is what got Gore the prize. Not the content of the work.

[Bojangles69]

Maybe if he actually solved global warming then I could understand, all he did was take a bunch of known facts and present it to some figure heads of state because he was in of himself a figure head. Why do the scientist that first proposed the theory of global warming not get to share the prize. They have worked on the problem literally their entire adult life. I think Politics more than reason is what got Gore the prize. Not the content of the work.

Well I don't know.
Some guy discovered in the end of the 1800s that CO2 would eventually impact the worlds climate but even when you discover something like that you still need to convince people to accept the idea.

I think Al Gore has convinced a lot more people than any scientist personally. And for that reason I think its fine he got an award for it.

[Gears]

Well I don't know.
Some guy discovered in the end of the 1800s that CO2 would eventually impact the worlds climate but even when you discover something like that you still need to convince people to accept the idea.

I think Al Gore has convinced a lot more people than any scientist personally. And for that reason I think its fine he got an award for it.

Scientific ideals = most publicity, how do you think Gregor Mendal became famous? Also, I have some close friends that are history majors that would be offended by your general outlook of the past.

[Flagg]

For me personally, the Environment is a very important issue, but to say that no one should care about what this woman did is a cvntish thing to say. Six million people went through worse than her? How about naming some examples. Prehaps Bojangles, you should research into how Jews were experimented on while being alive, how they were treated in Belson or Auschwitz. There were even stories of babies being used as substitutes for clay pigeon shooting. So again, find me some stories that's ten times worse than that. The Holocaust of the Jews and the rise of the Nazis is a black stain that will not go away for a long, long time in human history and I hope it's never forgotten.

That woman SHOULD be commended. It's funny that 6 million was a figure used, because it was approximately 6 million jews that died in the death camps. The fact that she helped a few escape, CHILDREN no less, is truly heroic.

[rockinred]

A Lady Named Irena Sendler

There recently was the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendler.

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 Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German).

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she also carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack, (for larger kids).

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 kids/infants noises.

During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs and 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 that may have survived it, and reunited the family.

Most, of course, had been gassed.

Those kids she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize....

She LOST.

Al Gore won for doing a slide show on Global Warming.





Irena Sendler's funeral, Warsa, Poland, May 15, 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler

Spy,

Good post... I didn't know what to expect when I opened this and I am sure glad to read this post... made my day to hear about how good people with big hearts are and how resilient people become when faced with adverse conditions... good story.

[rockinred]

For me personally, the Environment is a very important issue, but to say that no one should care about what this woman did is a cvntish thing to say. Six million people went through worse than her? How about naming some examples. Prehaps Bojangles, you should research into how Jews were experimented on while being alive, how they were treated in Belson or Auschwitz. There were even stories of babies being used as substitutes for clay pigeon shooting. So again, find me some stories that's ten times worse than that. The Holocaust of the Jews and the rise of the Nazis is a black stain that will not go away for a long, long time in human history and I hope it's never forgotten.

That woman SHOULD be commended. It's funny that 6 million was a figure used, because it was approximately 6 million jews that died in the death camps. The fact that she helped a few escape, CHILDREN no less, is truly heroic.

Flagg, couldn't agree with you more... I will say this... who cares what some award given by anyone really means... anyone who reads this story knows who the real noble hero really is... The differences in comparison are like night and day... there is a good speach and an entirely different level of human benevolance...

[SVTmuscle]

Al Gore is a ****ing douchebag and that Global warming bullshit is exactly that, bullshit.


Can you still be awarded a Nobel prize even after death?

[Flagg]

I'm sure you can get a posthumous award given to someone deceased, but I agree with Rockinred, that what is an award at the end of the day?

For me and most people that have read this, that story will carry far more weight with me than any amount of gold ever will.