The woman who was passed over by the Noble committee for Al Gore!

Bob Barney-We are re-running this story because you must WAKE UP! This woman was passed over by the Noble Peace Committee in favor of AL GORE, the crook that is trying to rob your hard earned dollars in a global warming tax scheme hoax! Now Donald Trump has asked the Committee to remove his prize! We say, give it to the rightful person–Irena Sendler! 

The Holocaust – the systematic annihilation of six million Jews – is
a history of enduring horror and sorrow. The charred skeletons, the
diabolic experiments, the death camps, the mass graves, the smoke from
the chimneys … In 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21
countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during the war.
By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed by the
Nazis. 1.5 million children were murdered. This figure includes more
than 1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children
and thousands of handicapped children.

Yet there were acts of
courage and human decency during the Holocaust – stories to bear
witness to goodness, love and compassion. This is the story of an incredible woman and her amazing gift to mankind. Irena
Sendler. An unfamiliar name to most people, but this remarkable woman
defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out
of the Warsaw Ghetto. As a health worker, she sneaked the children out
between 1942 and 1943 to safe hiding places and found non-Jewish
families to adopt them. For many years Irena Sendler –
white-haired, gentle and courageous – was living a modest existence in
her Warsaw apartment. This unsung heroine passed away on Monday May
12th, 2008. Her achievement went largely unnoticed for many
years. Then the story was uncovered by four young students at Uniontown
High School, in Kansas, who were the winners of the 2000 Kansas state
National History Day competition by writing a play Life in a Jar about
the heroic actions of Irena Sendler. The girls – Elizabeth
Cambers, Megan Stewart, Sabrina Coons and Janice Underwood – have since
gained international recognition, along with their teacher, Norman
Conard.

The presentation, seen in many venues in the United
States and popularized by National Public Radio, C-SPAN and CBS, has
brought Irena Sendlers story to a wider public. The students continue
their prize-winning dramatic presentation Life in a Jar. Irena Sendler Irena
Sendler was born in 1910 in Otwock, a town some 15 miles southeast of
Warsaw. She was greatly influenced by her father who was one of the
first Polish Socialists. As a doctor his patients were mostly poor
Jews.

In 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the brutality of the Nazis
accelerated with murder, violence and terror. At the time,
Irena was a Senior Administrator in the Warsaw Social Welfare
Department, which operated the canteens in every district of the city.
Previously, the canteens provided meals, financial aid, and other
services for orphans, the elderly, the poor and the destitute. Now,
through Irena, the canteens also provided clothing, medicine and money
for the Jews.

They were registered under fictitious Christian names,
and to prevent inspections, the Jewish families were reported as being
afflicted with such highly infectious diseases as typhus and
tuberculosis. But in 1942, the Nazis herded hundreds of
thousands of Jews into a 16-block area that came to be known as the
Warsaw Ghetto. The Ghetto was sealed and the Jewish families ended up
behind its walls, only to await certain death. Irena Sendler
was so appalled by the conditions that she joined Zegota, the Council
for Aid to Jews, organized by the Polish underground resistance
movement, as one of its first recruits and directed the efforts to
rescue Jewish children.

The Warsaw Ghetto To be able to
enter the Ghetto legally, Irena managed to be issued a pass from
Warsaws Epidemic Control Department and she visited the Ghetto daily,
reestablished contacts and brought food, medicines and clothing. But
5,000 people were dying a month from starvation and disease in the
Ghetto, and she decided to help the Jewish children to get out. For
Irena Sendler, a young mother herself, persuading parents to part with
their children was in itself a horrendous task. Finding
families willing to shelter the children, and thereby willing to risk
their life if the Nazis ever found out, was also not easy. Irena
Sendler, who wore a star armband as a sign of her solidarity to Jews,
began smuggling children out in an ambulance.

She recruited at least
one person from each of the ten centers of the Social Welfare
Department. With their help, she issued hundreds of false documents
with forged signatures. Irena Sendler successfully smuggled almost 2,500 Jewish children to safety and gave them temporary new identities. Some
children were taken out in gunnysacks or body bags. Some were buried
inside loads of goods.

A mechanic took a baby out in his toolbox. Some
kids were carried out in potato sacks, others were placed in coffins,
some entered a church in the Ghetto which had two entrances. One
entrance opened into the Ghetto, the other opened into the Aryan side
of Warsaw. They entered the church as Jews and exited as Christians.
"`Can you guarantee they will live?'" Irena later recalled the
distraught parents asking. But she could only guarantee they would die
if they stayed.

"In my dreams," she said, "I still hear the cries when they left their parents." Irena
Sendler accomplished her incredible deeds with the active assistance of
the Church. "I sent most of the children to religious establishments,"
she recalled. "I knew I could count on the Sisters." Irena also had a
remarkable record of cooperation when placing the youngsters: "No one
ever refused to take a child from me," she said. The children
were given false identities and placed in homes, orphanages and
convents.

Irena Sendler carefully noted, in coded form, the childrens
original names and their new identities. She kept the only
record of their true identities in jars buried beneath an apple tree in
a neighbor's back yard, across the street from German barracks, hoping
she could someday dig up the jars, locate the children and inform them
of their past. In all, the jars contained the names of 2,500 children … But
the Nazis became aware of Irena's activities, and on October 20, 1943
she was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo, who broke her
feet and legs. She ended up in the Pawiak Prison, but no one could
break her spirit.

Though she was the only one who knew the
names and addresses of the families sheltering the Jewish children, she
withstood the torture, that crippled her for life, refusing to betray
either her associates or any of the Jewish children in hiding. Sentenced
to death, Irena was saved at the last minute when Zegota members bribed
one of the Gestapo agents to halt the execution. She escaped from
prison but for the rest of the war she was pursued by the Nazis. After
the war she dug up the jars and used the notes to track down the 2,500
children she placed with adoptive families and to reunite them with
relatives scattered across Europe. But most lost their families during
the Holocaust in Nazi death camps. The children had known her
only by her code name Jolanta. But years later, after she was honored
for her wartime work, her picture appeared in a newspaper. "A man, a
painter, telephoned me," said Sendler, "`I remember your face,' he
said. `It was you who took me out of the ghetto.' I had many calls like
that!" 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. In 2007, she was
nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. At a special session in
Poland's upper house of Parliament, President Lech Kaczynski announced
the unanimous resolution to honor Irena Sendler for rescuing "the most
defenseless victims of the Nazi ideology: the Jewish children."

He
referred to her as a "great heroine who can be justly named for the
Nobel Peace Prize. She deserves great respect from our whole nation." During
the ceremony Elzbieta Ficowska, who was just six months old when she
was saved by Irena Sendler, read out a letter on her behalf: “Every
child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this
Earth, and not a title to glory,” Irena Sendler said in the letter,
“Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but
its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.”

This lovely, courageous woman was one of the most dedicated and
active workers in aiding Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Her
courage enabled not only the survival of 2,500 Jewish children but also
of the generations of their descendants. The Nobel Prize
recipient, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, has dedicated his life to
ensuring that none of us forget what happened to the Jews. He wrote: "In
those times there was darkness everywhere. In heaven and on earth, all
the gates of compassion seemed to have been closed. The killer killed
and the Jews died and the outside world adopted an attitude either of
complicity or of indifference. Only a few had the courage to care …"

Angel and living saint on earth, Irena Sendler


I can't imagine such guts.. such breathtaking courage. Lord, may she be richly blessed, serene in Your comforting arms. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
So,
when you next hear of a Nobel Peace Prize winner, remember how vapid,
worthless and politically correct they are. Meaningless, really.