Pole who saved ghetto Jews dies

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 11:38 GMT, Monday, 12 May 2008 12:38 UK

Pole who saved ghetto Jews dies

The death of a Polish woman who almost certainly saved
the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II
has been announced.

Irena Sendlerowa organised the rescue of the children
from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.

She died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98, her
daughter said.

After Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, she took
great risks to help Polish Jews held by the Nazis -
an act that was punishable by death.

In 1942 Irena Sendlerowa joined the Zegota resistance
movement.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7395767.stm

[sabra]

1. may her memory be blessed

thanks for the post!

[Citizen_Penn]

5. Evil flourishes when the good do nothing.

She did her part, and more.

May we find the same courage to do the right thing.

Sweet dreams, Irena.

[roguevalley]

14. God bless her, righteous gentile. I hope I have guts when it matters.

[BlooInBloo]

2. RIP. No one deserves a peaceful rest more.

[leftynyc]

3. Rest in Peace - Brave Woman

May her family be comforted during this time.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. 98 years-old. Sometimes the good don't die young.

I hope her post-war life was filled with joy, peace and love. What a beautiful person.

[SpikeTss]

6. She'll shine on

as a beacon of humanity and an example of a well spent life.
She'll be missed!

[Adsos Letter]

7. Thankyou Irena...

...for making the decision to act when so many others chose, and still choose, not to act...

May your memory live long in the hearts of many.

[uppityperson]

8. She is what I call a hero. RIP and many many thanks. nt

[LeftishBrit]

9. RIP

What a great heroine! And what a difference she made to so many.

[FourScore]

10. Her story should be told in a movie. n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

11. May she rest in peace.

:cry:

Poland honors woman who saved 2,500 Jews -- Irena Sendler

[underpants]

12. Sendler, saviour of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies

Source: Reuters

WARSAW, May 12 (Reuters) - Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on Monday after a long illness, local media said.

Using her position as a social worker, Sendler regularly entered the ghetto, smuggling around 2,500 children out in boxes, suitcases or hidden in trolleys.

She only escaped execution when Zegota managed to bribe some Nazi officials, who left her unconscious but alive with broken legs and arms in the woods.

"People who stand up for others, for the weak, are very rare. The world would have been a better place if there were more of them," Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, said on national television.

"The term 'hero' irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little," Sendler said in one of her last interviews. (Writing by Gabriela Baczynska; Editing by Jon Boyle)


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL12654106

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[Sheets of Easter]

13. What a sweet, wonderful woman.

May she rest in peace... O8)

[texasleo]

15. Baruch dayan ha’emet