Children’s hero from WWII dies~
Posted by Mea on May 14, 2008
IsraelNN.com) Irena Sendler (Sendlerowa), a Polish woman who risked her life to save 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi killing machine during World War II, passed away on Monday at a Warsaw hospital. She was 98 years old. Sendler is survived by her daughter and granddaughter.Sendler was one of the first people honored by the Israeli Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations” for her efforts to rescue Jews. However, she was not permitted by Poland’s Communist regime to travel to Israel at the time of the honor, in 1965.
Sendler was one of the first people honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126149
For more about the life of this dear woman, check out this site: http://www.irenasendler.org/default1.asp
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May 14th, 2008 at 9:58 am