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Modesty is the M.O. for Polish heroine Irena Sendler ( lost Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore )
San Francisco Jewish Community Publications ^ | April 21, 2011 | michael fox

Posted on 04/22/2011 5:55:38 PM PDT by george76

Irena Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker when the Nazis walled the Jewish quarter of her beloved Warsaw. The occupiers ruthlessly exacerbated the suffering in the ghetto by forbidding Poles from helping Jews.

Sendler originally smuggled food and medicine into the ghetto, but changed tactics once she saw that the Nazis’ aim wasn’t humiliation but annihilation.

“Very quickly we realized that the only way to save the children was to get them out,” she recalled.

Sendler and her cohorts began smuggling Jewish babies and adolescents from the ghetto with their parents’ blessing. The women acclimated the kids to non-Jewish homes before hiding them under Catholic names in dozens of convents and private residences.

Sendler continued her efforts even after the Warsaw Ghetto was destroyed, ultimately saving around 3,000 Jews altogether. She was especially careful about recording the original and adopted names and other details that would allow for the reunion of the children with their parents after the war.

Sendler, who died in 2008 at age 98

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthday; g81; globalwarming; irenasendler; nazis; nobel; nobelpeaceprize; nobelprize; peaceprize; sendler; warsaw
Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize....

She LOST.

Al Gore won for doing a slide show on Global Warming

1 posted on 04/22/2011 5:55:40 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Anna Paquin played her in an HBO TV movie. She lived quite a life.


2 posted on 04/22/2011 5:58:46 PM PDT by Publius
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And the NOBEL committee PASSED HER OVER FOR STUPID ALGORE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX???????????/
3 posted on 04/22/2011 5:58:55 PM PDT by Mr. K (this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
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To: george76
Sendler continued her efforts even after the Warsaw Ghetto was destroyed, ultimately saving around 3,000 Jews altogether. She was especially careful about recording the original and adopted names and other details that would allow for the reunion of the children with their parents after the war.

Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.... She LOST. Al Gore won for doing a slide show on Global Warming

It's all right, God didn't forget her.

And God's not forgetting Al, either.

4 posted on 04/22/2011 5:59:10 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: george76

Humility is a virtue that is never recognized for what it is which is why it is what it is.


5 posted on 04/22/2011 5:59:44 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: george76
Sounds like someone one worth remembering ~ and I don't mean the Algore.

I met some Shindler Jews at a party at a friend's house once. They were his wife's parents. Their first story was about how Shindler saved them ~ I think later on that evening we got around to some of the other stuff.

Typical of the Norwegians to pass over this lady ~ too Catholic or something ~ or maybe too friendly with Jews.

I'm sure they have an excuse ~ not one I can think up ~ but there'll be something.

6 posted on 04/22/2011 6:01:09 PM PDT by muawiyah
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So incredibly pathetic I still can't believe al gore's win and that he was up against this incredible person just makes me wish I could send off a blistering note to the people who voted for that dunderhead.

This award has certainly lost whatever luster it held.

7 posted on 04/22/2011 6:03:11 PM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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What’d you expect? They couldn’t use Irena to rob the world’s taxpayers of $Trillions. Therefore, she didn’t deserve the prize.


8 posted on 04/22/2011 6:04:11 PM PDT by FlyVet
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What a joke.


9 posted on 04/22/2011 6:07:47 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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Every time I read about this heroic woman’s story I am humbled and awed.

And every time I read about that piece of human offal and detritus from the political sewer, Al Gore beating her out for that Nobel Prize, I want to vomit.

Like the U.N., the Nobel Prize has become a worthless symbol of contemporary western degeneracy.


10 posted on 04/22/2011 6:16:04 PM PDT by ZULU (Lindsey Graham is a nanometrical pustule of pusillanimous putrescent excrement)
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Another jewel: Irene Gut Opdyke. Her story will be with me forever. (’In My Hands’). A true heroine!

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/124662/in-my-hands-by-irene-gut-opdyke/9780385720328/

I hope I never have to be this brave, but if push comes to shove, I sure hope I can be!


11 posted on 04/22/2011 6:42:40 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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Thanks george76.

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Google

12 posted on 04/22/2011 6:49:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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This award has certainly lost whatever luster it held.

Tookie Williams was actually considered, for a children's book he wrote while in prison.

13 posted on 04/22/2011 6:53:53 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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At the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, they have a tribute to all the Righteous who helped Jews during the war. That is the real tribute..
14 posted on 04/22/2011 7:47:16 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: george76

Evil is as evil does..


15 posted on 04/22/2011 10:57:35 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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16 posted on 04/25/2011 5:24:06 AM PDT by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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I’m sure Irena will have INFINITELY greater rewards than Al Gore....FOREVER!


17 posted on 04/27/2011 3:39:04 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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