REAL HEROES by Robert Feathers
Irena Sendler was a hero in Warsaw, Poland. During WWII, she got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Her motive was revealed but not until she had smuggled 2500 children and infants out of the ghetto and saved them from the Nazis. She died: May 12, 2008 at the age of 98 in Warsaw, Poland.
Irena hid the Jewish infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried, and she also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck for larger kids. She had trained a dog to bark at Nazi soldiers, and its barking covered the children’s noise as she passed in and out of the ghetto. Ultimately Irene was caught and the Nazi’s beat her severely and broke both of her arms and legs.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the children 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 and unite any surviving parents who may with their children . Most had been gassed or executed, but those children she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted.
In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for a slide show on Global Warming. Another politician, Barack Obama, won for his work as a community organizer for ACORN.
It is now more than 67 years since the Second World War in Europe ended. This story is in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!