Nobel Prize nominee, Irena Sendler died, May 12, 2008 at the age of 98. She has been credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
She was a 29-year-old social worker with the city's welfare department when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939.
". . . Seeking to save the ghetto's children, Sendler masterminded risky rescue
operations. Under the pretext of inspecting sanitary conditions during a
typhoid
outbreak, she and her assistants ventured inside the ghetto — and
smuggled out
babies and small children in ambulances and in trams, sometimes
wrapped up as
packages. . . ." ~~YAHOO! NewsThis woman risked her life doing something that she didn't have to do. She is an example of the good that can exist in this world.
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