A True Hero
A Lady Named Irena Sendler
There recently was the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendler. 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. Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she also 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 and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs and 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 reunite the families. Most, of course, had been gassed. Those kids she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Just thought this story was cool...I love hearing the stories of the Jews being rescued! I am currently reading a series of books about this. Thanks Granny for sharing this story!
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That's amazing. Thank you for sharing that! People like that are heros! By the way, what series of books are you reading? I must say that sounds crazy coming from you since you always "hated" to read! =) I would love the name of it because it sounds so interesting.
When I was in Germany I saw the concentration camps. We went to the worst one of them all called Dachau. I can't begin to describe the oppression you can feel just going into a place like that. We even saw old video footage and stuff, along with many pictures. It was awful.
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