Another Polish Saint – small dead animals

Via Sigmund, Carl and Alfred;

[Irena] Sendler used her status as a Warsaw municipal welfare officer to roam the ghetto, ostensibly to combat contagious diseases.
But according to Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial centre which has already honoured Ms Sendler as a “righteous gentile” for her actions, she used her visits to hand out money, clothes and medicines.
She disguised herself by donning a Star of David armband used by the Nazis to mark out Jews, and organised escape plans for thousands of children. Some were carried out in bags, while others were saved crawling through the network of sewers common to the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw.
Once they had escaped, the children were farmed out by Ms Sendler to Warsaw families, orphanages or convents, where they were hidden. For each success, Ms Sendler buried a jar containing the child’s name, to help families reunite after the war.

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But how can that be? We now know, thanks to our good friend Ahmedinejad, that the Holocaust didn’t happen. And if it did, we also know from our friends in the Liberal party that they deserved it because they control the money and the media. And even if that is not wholly correct, we know that Israelis, or Zionists, are as bad as the Nazis in the way they treat poor, peaceful Palestinians. /sarc
The saddest thing I see in that article is that the old lady is 97, she will pass in the next few years and people will forget. Almost as sad is that she is probably the most deserving person I can think of for the Nobel Peace Prize, much better than the last few, but she will almost certainly lose to the Goracle. A new fad will end the remembrance of an old tragedy.

May God bless Sendler. She is a lion and we need more like her.

Maybe Irena Sendler could have a talk with President Ah-jad in Iran and tell him all about the non-existent Holocaust.
Every once in a while, I read a story about a person like Irena Sendler, or Oscar Schindler or some other ordinary person who did extraordinary things. I wonder where they found the compassion and the courage…and I wonder what I would have done in such hellish circumstances.

Thanks for posting this story, Kate. The public’s knowledge of the Holocaust is simplistic and incomplete. Very soon, the last living witnesses to WW2 will no longer be alive and then the revisionists will really try to take over.

This Lady had balls. Great Big Brass Ones. Many around her did not. There is nothing more noble on this earth than saving the life of a child,and nothing more vile than harming one.

God bless this wonderful lady. Yes, she and others like her truly deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for acts of sacrificial charity and valour. However, giving this prize to such hypocrites and weasels as Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat has altogether sullied its honour.
Thanks, Kate, for this inspiring story.

She who saves one life, saves the world entire.

Given that this is the Vigil of the great Christian Feast of Easter, marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who brought–and continues to bring–healing, light, and life to his followers (and often to many who don’t acknowledge His existence), what a fitting story.
Thanks, Kate, for bringing Irena Sendler to our attention. How many other “quiet saints” are there in the world? They will shine with a special brightness in eternity.

batb, Amen!

I’m actually listening to the sublime Symphony of Sorrowful Songs by the Polish composer, Henryk Gorecki, (sung by the wondrous soprano, Dawn Upshaw) with which Irena Sendler is probably familiar.
She is also familiar with the life giving Christian faith that she shares with so many Poles. The Second Movement of this exquisite symphony is a prayer to the Blessed Virgin, written by an 18 year old girl, Helena Wanda Blazusiakowna, on the wall of cell 3, Gestapo headquarters in Zakopane:
“No, Mother, do not weep,
Most chaste Queen of Heaven,
Support me always.
Zdrowas Mario. (Hail Mary.)”
Many who read this will not understand such devotion. Fair enough. But it is such devotion–not always Christian by any means–that comforts and sustains an imprisoned child and compels an Irena Sendler or Oscar Schindler to acts of heroism in the face of great evil. Alleluia. Amen.
A blessed Easter to all who celebrate this great feast of the Church. (And to those who don’t, have a fine weekend.)

Thank you, lookout.
The proclamation, around the world, is about to begin, in a chorus of millions and millioins of voices, in a round, as it moves from time zone to time zone:
Jesus Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!
A blessed and joyful Easter to all!