just had this sent to me

The prize doesn't always go to the most deserving....

Irena Sendler

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' ... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had 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. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.



Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected.


Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

if you have money/power you have influence
Agreed that is a damning indictment on how these awards work
However I bet you that the woman in question would never have been bothered about the award anyway, unlike that Gore character
She was happy to have done what she did, usually that's the way people are who do such honourable deeds
People like Gore want attention and the award would have been everything to him
Award schward schmord pork sword!!!!
What does it mean anyway?
We all know who the good guys and who the bad guys are

A very moving story.

I'd like to think she will get her real reward in heaven.

Im sure Ive heard that story several times over the years.
I fully agree there are people like her who deserve more recognition than the likes of Al Gore or any other politicians,but I think this story is a hoax Im afraid.

I think this quote from her says it all

""Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory"

I stand corrected.
I knew I had heard the story before though,I guess thats the way of the internet these days,hear a story twice & assume its another one doing the rounds.