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Czech Who Helped Children Post-WWII Home Dies at 100
Times of Israel ^ | February 23, 2014

Posted on 02/23/2014 12:08:23 PM PST by nickcarraway

Josefina Napravilova traveled around Europe to find 40 children taken by Nazis from their parents

Josefina Napravilova, a Czech woman who worked tirelessly as a volunteer to locate dozens of children taken by the Nazis from their families during WWII, has died.

A museum in Lidice, where Napravilova was an honorary citizen, says she died Thursday at age 100 at a nursing home in the southern town of Tabor.

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1 posted on 02/23/2014 12:08:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Happens in the US every day:

Parents fight for custody of Justina Pelletier after Mass. hospital locks her in psych ward

3 posted on 02/23/2014 12:33:13 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: nickcarraway

God smiled on that lady.


4 posted on 02/23/2014 12:35:16 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: nickcarraway

RIP.


5 posted on 02/23/2014 1:19:23 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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And Obama got a peace prize, why?

God bless this woman.


6 posted on 02/23/2014 2:36:47 PM PST by Organic Panic
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Up there with Irena Sendler and Corrie Ten Boom.


7 posted on 02/23/2014 2:38:25 PM PST by dfwgator
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