[First image text description: A black image with white text in all caps start to finish.
Header reads: Remember this lady?
Subheader reads: I didn’t either.
A black and white photo of a young woman is beneath the header. She has dark hair and a dark outfit, and is not smiling. Photo text reads: Irena Sendler. Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98) Warsaw, Poland.
Body text reads: During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the warsaw ghetto, as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive.
Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.
Irena kept 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.
Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the nazi’s broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out, in a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to located any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Price. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on global warming.
[Left side text: Irena Sendler
Thank you for giving so much and saving so many.]
[Right side black and white photo beside left side text: an old woman with pale hair and a dark hair band and dark clothing, smiling.]
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[second photo is a tweet from G P Hildreth which reads: So many heroic women we are never taught about in history. Here is a true hero.]
