Irena Sendler

A 98 year-old lady named Irena recently died. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' .... being Pole, she KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews. Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried & 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 & out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog & the barking covered the kids/infants noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out & save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, & 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 & 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 & reunite t he families. Most of course 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.