A hero has passed
#1A hero has passed
Posted: 5/12/08 at 2:51pm
WARSAW, Poland (May 12) - Irena Sendler - a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities - has died. She was 98.
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#2re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/12/08 at 3:46pmTo say a wonderful person, of course, doesn't even begin to cover it.
#4re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/12/08 at 3:47pmTo say a wonderful person, of course, doesn't even begin to cover it.
#6re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/12/08 at 3:48pmTo say a wonderful person, of course, doesn't even begin to cover it.
#9re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/12/08 at 4:04pmwow, talk about being stuck in a statement, lol
#10re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/12/08 at 4:16pmI'm sorry that happened. I think it was my computer, I didn't plan on saying it that many times!
#11re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/12/08 at 4:27pmHow can anyone not be moved by her courage. The people that walk the earth today only because of her, and others like her.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/12/08 at 4:29pmIs she the one who saved the Jews listed on "Sendler's list?"
#13re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/12/08 at 4:41pm
In 2002 there was a Polish film made about her. Three US high school students learned about her went to go visit her in Poland. She was a nurse. A brave and courageous woman who like many others, risked everything to help these children. (Jaap Penrat was another... his family had no idea what he had done until about 8 years ago)
There is a saying: If you save one life - you save a hundred.. if you take one life... you take a hundred.
In theory, she saved 250,000 and the monsters at the time, took over 600,000,000
lovepuppy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#10re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/13/08 at 3:07pm
Well, that's 6,000,000--six million, not six hundred million. But as a Jew, your point is taken.
FYI, what lots of people don't recognize (particularly non-Jewish Holocaust deniers, though the following should be of interest to them--and no, that is not directed at anyone here), is that 12 or 13 million people total, died in the Holocaust.
Not just Jewish people, though clearly elimination of Jews was the goal and any "ethnic cleansing" is a presumtuous cruel goal of any person or nation. But the other half of people who were killed included gay people, black people, other non-aryan ethnicities, Christians who tried to help Jews, and just plenty of people in general who the Nazis felt entitled to shoot just for breathing the wrong way.
#11re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/13/08 at 3:13pm
She was saying that in taking one life, you take one hundred potential lives.
But, you're right, it's estimated to be between 11 and 13 million people who were killed during the Holocaust.
lovepuppy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#12re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/13/08 at 3:19pmOops, looks like I read the meaning of the last post wrong, thanks!
kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#13re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/13/08 at 4:15pm
I think your estimates are low (are you forgetting Russia et al?). WWII genocide estimates are closer to 16-20 million.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#14re: A hero has passed
Posted: 5/13/08 at 6:00pmDon't forget about the multitude of people who had mental and physical disabilities.
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