THE LADY PLUMBER
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You wonder what criteria is used to select people for the 'nobel' peace prize.
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Remember this lady?
WHAT A WOMAN
Irena Sender
Irena
Sendlerowa
Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98)
Warsaw ,
Poland
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During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the
Warsaw ghetto,
as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive..
Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried.
She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.
Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark
when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.
The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog
and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time of doing this, she managed to
smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
Ultimately, she was caught, and the Nazis
broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled
out in a
glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard.
After the war, she tried to locate any parents that
may have survived
and tried to reunite the family.
Most had been gassed.
Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She was not selected.
In 1965, Sendler was recognized by
Yad Vashem in Israel as one of the
Polish Righteous among the Nations[30][31] and a tree was planted in her honor
at the entrance to
the Avenue of the Righteous.[32] However, there was no further public recognition of her wartime resistance and humanitarian work until after the
end of communist rule in Poland. The story was suppressed by the Communist Government.
In 1991, Sendler was made an honorary citizen of Israel.[33] On
12 June 1996, she was awarded the Commander's Cross of the
Order of Polonia Restituta.[34][35] She received a higher version of this award, the Commander's Cross
with Star, on 7 November 2001.[36]
Nevertheless, Irena Sendler's achievements remained largely unknown to the world until 1999, when students at a high school in
Uniontown, Kansas, along with their teacher Norman Conard, produced a play based on their research into her life story, which they called
Life in a Jar. It was a surprising success, staged over 200 times in the US and abroad, and significantly contributed
to publicising Sendler's history worldwide.[37]
In March 2002, B’nai Jehudah Temple of Kansas City presented Sendler,
Conard and the students who produced the play with its annual
award “for contributions made to saving the world” (Tikkun Olam Award).[38] The play was adapted for
television as The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009), directed by
John Kent Harrison, in which Sendler was portrayed by actress
Anna Paquin.[39][40][41]
In 2003,
Pope John Paul II sent Sendler a personal letter praising her wartime efforts.[42][43]
On 10 November 2003, she received the
Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest civilian decoration,[44] and the Polish-American award, the
Jan Karski Award "For Courage and Heart", given by the
American Center of Polish Culture in
Washington, D.C.[45]
In 2006, Polish NGOs
Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej and Stowarzyszenie Dzieci Holocaustu, the
Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Life in a Jar Foundation established the "Irena Sendler's Award: For Repairing the World" (pl:Nagroda
imienia Ireny Sendlerowej „Za naprawianie świata”), awarded to Polish and American teachers.[46][47]
The Life in a Jar Foundation is a foundation dedicated to promoting the attitude and message of Irena Sendler.[47]
In 2007, she was nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize.[48][30][49][50]
On 14 March 2007, Sendler was honoured by the
Polish Senate,[51] and a year later, on 30 July, by the American Congress.[52] On 11 April
2007, she received the
Order of the Smile; at that time she was the oldest recipient of the award.[53] In 2007 she became an honorary citizen of the cities of
Warsaw and
Tarczyn.[citation needed]
On the occasion of
the Order of the Smile, award she mentioned that the award from children
is among her favorite ones, along with the Righteous among
the Nations award and the letter from the Pope.[54]
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