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Irena Sandler

Irena was born in Warsaw, but grew up in the town of Otwock, Poland.
Irena was born in 1910.
Irena was in charge of the Children's Division of Zegota (a Polish underground group to assist Jewish people).
Irena's great grandfather led a rebellion against the Czars.
Irena and her helpers made over 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families before she joined Zegota and the children's division.
Irena's father was a doctor. Her father died in the typhus epidemic of 1917 when he contacted the disease while caring for poor Jewish people in Otwock. Browse our photo gallery for a photo and information on Irena's mother and father. Photograph number 104 is an excellent photo of her parents.
Irena was an only child, but she had a son and a daughter. Her daughter, Janka,still lives in Warsaw, Poland, and her son Adam passed away in 1999 (interestingly enough, the day the Life in a Jar project started on September 23rd). Adam's daughter, Irena's granddaughter Agniesa, is the same age as the girls who started the Life in a Jar project.
Irena's nameday is October 20, while her birthday is February 15.
From Anna Krzyzewska, who is the daughter of Mrs. Maria Kukulska (Anna’s mother helped care for Irena’s children after they left the Ghetto, before they were placed) : Irena Sendlerowa was not only very active in saving Jewish children but also in resistance against the Germans. "She was frequently at our apartment."
Irena used the old courthouse on the edge of the Warsaw Ghetto (still standing) as one of the main routes of smuggling children out.
Irena Sendlerowa was a Polish woman who, along with her underground network, rescued 2,500 Jewish children in Poland during World War II. Many of this number were already outside of the Ghetto and in hiding.
As early as 1939, when the Germans invaded Warsaw, Irena began helping Jews by offering them food and shelter.
When the Warsaw Ghetto was erected in 1940, Irena could no longer help isolated Jews. The Ghetto was an area the size of New York's Central Park and 450,000 Jewish people were forced into this area.
Irena first rescued the orphan children from inside the Ghetto.
Irena used her papers as a Polish social worker and papers from one of the workers of the Contagious Disease Department (who was a member of the underground Zegota) to enter the Warsaw Ghetto.
Irena and the ten who went with her into the ghetto, used many, many methods to smuggle children out. There were five main means of escape: 1- using an ambulance a child could be taken out hidden under the stretcher. 2 - escape through the courthouse. 3 - a child could be taken out using the sewer pipes or other secret underground passages. 4- A trolley could carry out children hiding in a sack, in a trunk, a suitcase or something similar. 5 - if a child could pretend to be sick or was acutally very ill, it could be legally removed using the ambulance. ****Irena did use a dog on occasion, but very few times out of the many rescues. Also, the number of babies saved was small in relation to the total number of children rescued.
There was a church next to the ghetto, but the entrance leading to it was "sealed" by the Germans. If a child could speak good Polish and rattle off some Christian prayers it could be smuggled in through the "sealed" entrance and later taken to the Aryan side. This was very dangerous since Germans often used a rouse to trick the Poles and then arrest Jolanta/Irena documented on the strips of paper she had buried, as well as where the child was taken in the first phase of its escape.
Irena (code name Jolanta) was arrested on October 20, 1943. When arrested she felt almost liberated. She was placed in the notorious Piawiak prison, where she was constantly questioned and tortured. During the questioning she had her legs and feet fractured.
The German who interrogated her was young, very stylish and spoke perfect Polish. He wanted the names of the Zegota leaders, their addresses and the names of others involved. Irena fed him the version that she and her collaborators had prepared in the event they were captured. The German held up a folder with information of places, times and persons who had informed on her. She received a death sentence. She was to be shot. Unbeknown to her, Zegota had bribed the German executioner who helped her escape. On the following day the Germans loudly proclaimed her execution. Posters were put up all over the city with the news that she was shot. Irena read the posters herself.
During the remaining years of the war, she lived hidden, just like the children she rescued. Irena was the only one who knew where the children were to be found. When the war was finally over, she dug up the bottles and began the job of finding the children and trying to find a living parent.
Almost all the parents of the children Irena saved, died at the Treblinka death camp.
"The names of the saved children I wrote down on thin tissue paper. There were two identical lists in two bottles. When I once have the list at home the same night Gestapo arrived. Fortunately one of my liaison girls demonstrated her presence of mind and hid the list in her underwear. After that for safety reasons I never kept the lists at home. As more children were saved the bottles were dug up and new names added to the list." Irena Sendler
When Irena first heard about the project in Kansas, "I was stunned and fascinated; very, very suprised; interested." In one of Irena's first letters to the girls, she wrote, "My emotion is being shadowed by the fact that no one from the circle of my faithful coworkers, who constantly risked their lives, could live long enough to enjoy all the honors that now are falling upon me.... I can't find the words to thank you, my dear girls.... Before the day you have written the play "Life in a Jar" -- nobody in my own country and in the whole world cared about my person and my work during the war ..."
Irena and her network made sure that each family hiding a child realized the child must be returned to Jewish relatives after the war. Sadly, many of the relatives died in the Holocaust.
Irena Sendler was announced as the 2003 winner of the Jan Karski award for Valor and Courage. The announcement was made on July 24, 2003 and the awards ceremony will be on October 23, 2003 in Washington, D.C. She was nominated by the 'Life in a Jar' students and teacher, and Stefanie Seltzer, President of the World Federation of Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust.
'Life in a Jar' started as a National History Day project in September of 1999. Four students (Megan Stewart, Liz Cambers, Sabrina Coons and Jessica Shelton) began looking for information about Irena Sendler. Mr. Conard had given them a clipping he had found in a 1994 issue of U.S. News and World Report. The mention of Irena was in a story called "Other Schindlers." Only one web site on the Internet mentioned Irena, it was not until the students visited Poland in 2001 that Irena's story became known to the world. At last count there were over 80,000 web sites on the Internet mentioning Irena.
The students of the 'Life in a Jar' project have gathered over 4,000 pages of primary material and research on the life of Irena Sendler and work of Zegota.
Irena's story became known to the world through the Life in a Jar project. The author of the Polish book which features Irena's life story says, "Everybody I talked to in working on this book, said that international and Polish interest in Irena Sendler’s activities was begun and provoked by the activities of the Kansas girls and popularization in the American media."
Be careful about Internet facts concerning Irena. snopes.com has much incorrect information. The Life in a Jar cast has done over 4,000 pages and thousands of hours of primary research and interviews. Timeline: 1910 - Irena born in Otwock, Poland 1939 - World War II begins 1939 - Irena makes false documents for Jewish families 1942- Irena has already started the rescue of children and adults. 1942 - In October of this year, Irena becomes head of Zegota children’s division. 1943 - Around 2,000 children are either taken out of the Ghetto by this time, or are being hidden in the Warsaw area--in orphanages, convents and with families. 1943- Irena caught by the Gestapo 1945 - War ends and communism takes over Poland 1965 - Yad Vashem recognizes Irena as a Righteous Gentile 1983 - Yad Vashem plants tree in her honor 1989 - Communism falls in Poland 1994 - A Zegota film is produced by Bozenna Gilbride 1998 - U.H.S. students complete 40th diversity project 1999 - Girls in Uniontown, KS decide on Irena as a topic for National History Day September 23, 1999 - The Life in a Jar/Irena Sendler Project begins. September 23, 1999 - Adam, the forty nine year old son of Irena Sendler, passes away with heart problems. 1999 - Only one web site on net mentions Irena-she is unknown to the world 1999 - Life in a Jar play is written 2000 - Girls find Irena is still alive and start writing her 2000 - Life in a Jar play and Irena Sendler Project continue 2000 - First national and regional press interviews of the girls May-2001 - Students, parents and the Conards travel to Poland to see Irena May-2001 - Story of Irena breaks on international press - AP, USAToday, CNN May 2001 - Survivor calls students “rescuers of Irena’s story for the world.” March 2002 - Irena Sendler Day in Kansas City July 2002 - Students take 2nd trip to Poland - 24 interviews April 2003 - Students begin Irena Sendler and Life in a Jar web site May 2003 - 3 of the 4 founders of project graduate from high school May 2003 - Howard and Ro Jacobson begin scholarship program for U.H.S. October 2003 - Irena receives letter from Pope John Paul II November 2003 - Irena is recognized by President of Poland August 2004 - Irena Sendler book published in Poland November 2004 - 150th presentation of LIAJ Feb. 2005 - Irena’s 95th birthday March 2005 - Over 100 schools in U.S. & Poland have developed similar projects. May 2005 - Students travel to Poland on 3rd trip- see Irena - much press and successful presentations. June 2005 - Irena Sendler Day in Warsaw June 2005 - Life in a Jar presents to 200 child survivors in Zakopane, Poland. August 2005 - Irena Sendler web site reaches 1.5 million hits April 2006 – The 1st Irena Sendler Award is given in Warsaw May 2006 – 200th presentation of Life in a Jar in New Bedford, Mass January 2007 – Irena is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. February 2007 – Life in a Jar makes a DVD of the play in Los Angeles with the help of the Milken Family Foundation. September 2007 – The Life in a Jar/Irena Sendler Project enters its 9th year. October 2007 – Megan Stewart-Felt passes 3,000 hours in project. February 2008 - Irena celebrates her 98th birthday. March 2008- The cast performs for the 245th time, in Toronto, Canada. May 12, 2008 - Irena passes away. May 12, 2008 - Megan Felt, who plays Irena Sendler in Life in a Jar and has a beautiful relationship with Irena, has her 23rd birthday.

Guess who got it? Al Gore

No ore can this prize carry any weight. This prize is purely political.

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Originally posted by 14713742:
*http://www.irenasendler.org/facts.asp*

Irena Sandler

Irena was born in Warsaw, but grew up in the town of Otwock, Poland.
Irena was born in 1910.
Irena was in charge of the Children's Division of Zegota (a Polish underground group to assist Jewish people).
Irena's great grandfather led a rebellion against the Czars.
Irena and her helpers made over 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families before she joined Zegota and the children's division.

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Guess who got it? Al Gore

No more can this prize carry any weight. This prize is purely political.

AMEN - also check out my folowing post.....

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Nobel is no laughing matter
Peter Heck - Guest Columnist - 10/19/2009 10:20:00 AM
Admittedly, my first reaction upon hearing the news of President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize was – like many – to snicker. While several felt outrage over giving someone who had been in office 11 days at the time of the nomination deadline an award of this caliber, I wasn't indignant or even surprised by it.

Keep in mind this award has become cheapened to a mere political endorsement in recent years. It has been given to a terrorist (Yasser Arafat), a bumbling weapons inspector who struggled not only to do his job but also to hide his obvious anti-Semitism (Mohammed El Baradei), and to Jimmy Carter! But perhaps most egregiously, the Nobel committee overlooked Irena Sendler, who risked her life repeatedly to single-handedly smuggle Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto, sparing them from Hitler's human ovens. She saved over 2,500 children, and after being captured and sentenced to death by the Nazis, escaped only by bribing the guards. This miraculous story of risking everything to defend the defenseless didn't seem to impress the committee, as they chose to give the award to Al Gore for his slideshow on the dubious man-made global warming theory.

Given these sad examples, my initial thoughts were simply to yawn at the reality of a group of left-wing ideologues giving to one of their own an award they have sadly stripped of its meaning.

I've changed my mind.

Not because I just want another opportunity to criticize President Obama. Not because it is merely a chance to hop on my soapbox, though those will undoubtedly be the conclusions some will choose to draw. I've changed my mind because the idea of "peace" should mean something to us. If we don't object to the notion of giving the highest civilian award for fostering peace on earth to a man who has no regard for the intrinsic worth of humanity, we are complicit in removing any fundamental meaning to the word.

President Obama's radical stance on the issue of abortion categorically disqualifies him from any consideration for this award. Not only does he hold to the slave-owners ideology that some humans should be given the "choice" to deprive other humans of their inalienable rights, but he has enacted policies to use tax dollars to fund such an abominable belief. Further, when questioned on the critical issue of when humans are to be protected and given human rights, this supposed "man of peace" takes a pass – not because he doesn't know the answer, but because the answer exposes the grotesque evil behind his position.

But don't take my word for it. While accepting the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa powerfully stated:
"We are talking of peace...the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a direct war, a direct killing - direct murder by the mother herself. And we read in the Scripture, for God says very clearly: Even if a mother could forget her child - I will not forget you - I have carved you in the palm of my hand. We are carved in the palm of His hand, so close to Him that unborn child has been carved in the hand of God. And that is what strikes me most, the beginning of that sentence, that even if a mother could forget something impossible - but even if she could forget - I will not forget you. And today the greatest means - the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.

Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you kill me - there is nothing between."
President Obama's defenders may point to his opposition to "unjust war" and the new tone he is extending to a world that they perceive as tired of American imperialism. Longing to end conflict and wars – something I believe our president truly desires – is a noble calling, and one worthy of admiration.

But peace is about far more than being willing to sit down at a conference table, trying to work out differences with men who want to kill you. It's about how you view humanity itself. It's about doing everything within your power to protect the powerless and defend the defenseless. If President Obama wants to be considered a man of peace, he must begin by reversing policies that facilitate the slaughter of the innocent – not in Afghanistan or Iraq, but in the womb.



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So now tell me that Political Correctness has not seized the world and that "TRUTH" is only what "the Party" says it is.

Satan is having a field day right now.



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