Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Death of a Hero
Irena Sendler died yesterday at the age of 98. A Polish Catholic, during WWII, she saved over 2500 Jewish children from certain death by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, providing them with counterfeit papers and placing them in convents and orphanages. She and 30 brave volunteers - mostly women - managed to get children and some teens out of the ghetto before it was liquidated and the remainder of the Jewish residents were sent to death camps. In all my research about the Holocaust,...
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