#irena sendler

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This is the story of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker, nurse and humanitarian who defied the Nazis and secretly saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto.   Irena Sendler was born in 1910 to a Polish Catholic family. She was 29 years old when WWII broke out and worked for the Social Welfare Department in Warsaw. As a social worker, Sendler had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, where she was committed to helping those in need. Knocking on the doors of Jewish families, she persuaded parents to trust her with their children’s lives in a desperate plan to save them.   For two years, she smuggled hundreds of children out of the ghetto using potato sacks, boxes, and even coffins. Once safely out, the children were given shelter in orphanages, convents, and non-Jewish homes, along with new identity papers.   Sendler kept meticulous records of the children’s real names, which she buried in jars in her backyard, hoping to reunite them with their families after the war.   In 1943, she was caught, tortured, and sentenced to death by the Gestapo but managed to escape with the help of Polish resistance fighters. Despite her capture, she never revealed the names or locations of those she had saved.   After the war, Irena recovered the jars and began reuniting the children with surviving family members. Tragically, many of the families had been murdered in the Holocaust.   In 1965, Irena Sendler was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and died in Warsaw in 2008 at the age of 98. She never sought recognition for her heroism and leaves behind a legacy of extraordinary bravery and humanity.

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Irena Sendler by Allison Adams

Irena Sendler (1910-2008) was a Polish social worker who rescued 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto and placed them in convents and with non-Jewish families. She would tuck them away in suitcases and doctor's bags and hide them in her car. She trained her dog to bark if a child cried or a guard came near, which would cause the guard's dogs to bark in reaction. She saved 2500 lives...more than any other single person in that period.

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Young Polish resistance fighters of the Armia Krajowa falsely portrayed as Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto While watching a film about Irena Sendler called "In The Name Of Their Mothers", I saw this photo of young Polish resistance fighters falsely described as showing Jewish children escaping through holes in the wall of the Warsaw ghetto. The two boys on the right of the picture are clearly wearing the red and white armbands of the Armia Krajowa, and the photo was actually taken in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. Nevertheless, I'd still highly recommend the film....

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If you want to read a beautiful fictional story about women on the home front in Europe who helped soldiers and the Jews, I recommend this book.

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IRENA SENDLER // NURSE

“She was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews. Sendler participated, with dozens of others, in smuggling Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then providing them with false identity documents and shelter with willing Polish families or in orphanages and other care facilities, including Catholic nun convents, saving those children from the Holocaust.”

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Irena Sendler

Rescuing Hope from the Shadows of the Holocaust

“If you see someone drowning, you must jump in to save them, whether you can swim or not.” Irena Sendler was just 7 years old when her father spoke those words. 

Irena was born in 1910 and grew up an only child in the Polish town of Otwock. After her father’s death, Jewish community leaders, touched by his kindness, offered to help Irena’s mother pay for her education. Irena studied Polish literature at Warsaw University and joined the Socialist party before becoming a social worker. She was nearly 30 when the Nazis took over Warsaw through ruthless aerial bombardments and a brutal occupation that would last the duration of the war.

As soon as the Nazi tanks rolled in, Irena began offering food and shelter to Jews in her neighborhood. By the following year, the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest in Nazi-occupied Europe, had been constructed: 10–foot-high walls topped with barbed wire and surrounded by Nazi guards with orders to shoot escapees on sight. Some 400,000 Jewish people were forced into 1.3 square miles of space and afforded daily rations of a mere 181 calories. At least 254,000 of those who managed to survive the rampant disease, mass starvation, and random killings in the ghetto were sent to Treblinka concentration camp, where most died.

Between 1939 and 1942, Irena, along with friends and colleagues, made over 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families escape the ghetto, saving many lives. She then joined the underground Polish organization, Zegota, in December 1942 and ran its children’s division. Using her Social Welfare Department permit, Irena entered the Warsaw Ghetto under the guise of checking for signs of typhus, which the Nazis feared would spread beyond the ghetto walls. Wearing a Star of David to show her solidarity, Irena began talking Jewish parents into giving up their children, who faced near-sure fates of dying in the ghetto or death camps. The parents had a devastatingly heartbreaking choice to make, and Irena, risking her own life, could afford them no assurances—only a chance their children otherwise would not have.

Irena and her group of about 25 volunteers, mostly women, smuggled the children past Nazi guards using various methods. Sometimes Irena took children out in an ambulance, hidden under a stretcher, or in the trolley, concealed in trunks or suitcases. Other times, she put sedated children in body bags to sneak out the ghetto entrance. Some children were taken out through sewer pipes or other secret underground passages; others escaped through the old courthouse that stood on the edge of the ghetto. If a child spoke good Polish and could rattle off some Christian prayers, he or she could be smuggled into the church next to the ghetto through an entrance guarded by Germans and later taken to the Aryan side. But all of these methods were highly dangerous, and the Germans often used ruses to trick the Poles and arrest them.

After removing the children from the ghetto, Irena and her coworkers adopted them into the homes of Polish families or hid them in convents and orphanages. They ensured that each family hiding a child knew he or she must be returned to Jewish relatives after the war. Meanwhile, Irena made lists of the children’s real names on thin tissue paper and hid them in jars, which she buried under an apple tree across the street from the German barracks.

On October 20, 1943, the Gestapo came to Irena’s apartment; two German guards stood watch outside as nine pounded up the stairs. In the nick of time, Irena tossed the list of children’s names to a friend, who hid it under her arm. The Germans dragged Irena to Pawiak prison and beat her severely, fracturing her feet and legs. A young guard interrogated and tortured her for the names of the Zegota leaders, and she fed him a story that she and her collaborators had prepared in the event of capture. But the guard held up a folder of intelligence the Gestapo had gathered on her, including the names of people who had informed on her. Irena received a sentence of death by firing squad.

Irena described feeling near relief at her death sentence, which would spare her the constant, unbearable fear she felt risking her life every day. But at the last minute, Zegota bribed a German guard who helped Irena escape just as she was being led to her execution. The next day, posters went up all over the city with the news that Irena had been shot. She read the posters herself.

After her escape, Irena went into hiding, just like the children she rescued, for the remainder of the war. All the while, she continued her work. With the help of the Polish Resistance and some 200 convents and orphanages in the city of Warsaw and throughout the countryside, Irena and her helpers managed to save the lives of at least 2,500 Jewish children. When the war was finally over, she dug up the jars she had buried under the noses of the Germans and began the difficult job of finding the children and locating a living relative. But almost all the parents of the children that Irena saved died at the Treblinka death camp.

Irena lived out the next 50 years in anonymity, suppressed by the Communist regime in post-war Poland and haunted by the horrors she had witnessed throughout the war. She had nightmares every single night of her life, asking herself, “Did I do enough?” Then in 1999, when Irena was 89 years old, a group of Protestant high school students from Kansas dug up her story and brought it to light, giving the world a true heroine—and Irena the recognition she so rightly deserved. In 2007, Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize before passing away in 2008 at the age of 98.

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Looked this up and there was more to the story than this chain letter represents. This is the post, shared by someone who wanted her heroic story to be told accurately. I recommend checking it out. ❤️

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillunusual/12752622843

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Warsaw Grit

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8 Recently finished a book one of my daughters gave me for Christmas. Love WW2 historical fiction as it draws me into a time where heroes multiply. Reading about Dr. Korczak, a teacher who ran his orphanage full of parentless children, was touching to say the least. While in the ghetto, he began working with another…

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The Bundists fought antisemitism by building solidarity with their fellow Russians, Poles and other workers.

How did that work out for them? 

Did it protect them during the Holocaust? Did the socialist Poles come out in force to block Nazi deportations of Jews - or did they enthusiastically participate? How did the Jews fare in the Soviet Union under Stalin?

Now, if Zionism had successfully created an independent Jewish state by 1938, how many millions of lives could have been saved?

Even before Israel was created, and through the time of the British White Paper, some 400,000 Jews immigrated from Europe to Israel between 1900-1940, the heyday of the Bund. Meaning, Zionism saved 400,000 Jews from death. 

How many did socialism save?

The article is positioned to say that socialism is a better alternative than Zionism in fighting antisemitism. By the most important metric - which one saved more lives - Zionism did far, far better than socialism did, although some socialist groups did speak out against Nazi antisemitism.

It is not a winning argument to say that there were hundreds of thousands of socialist Jews in Eastern Europe during the 1930s, when most of them were killed and their fellow socialists they thought they were in solidarity with didn't so a whole hell of a lot. (To be sure, some of the righteous Gentiles were socialists, like Irena Sendler, but I am not aware of any worker's party that make saving Jews a priority.)

The crazy part is that the Jewish socialists today still make the same argument that worker solidarity is the key to fight antisemitism. Yet are these people doing anything to fight antisemitism today? They only talk about far-Right antisemitism, but they condone - or embrace - the antisemitism of the Muslim world, Black antisemitism, and progressive antisemitism. 

And if they argue that Israel is causing antisemitism, that is because of the socialists themselves, who are in the forefront of making antisemitism-as-anti-Zionism acceptable in Leftist circles. 

The cluelessness is remarkable. 

[everythingismadeofchaos]

This is my list of (IMHO) genuinely heroic people. I keep this list so that when I'm feeling uninspired I can pick a name at random, look them up, and be inspired. My memory kinda sucks so I've usually forgotten about them in the interim so it's like hearing some inspiring story for the first time. Please feel free to use this list for that purpose or for whatever purpose helps you. This is a private thing I've been absent-mindedly curating for years, so it's a little discombobulated; maybe I should put it in alphabetical order, for example. Since it works for what I use it for, though, I've never had the need for that, although there may be some duplicates specifically because of that.

If you have any additions, I'd love to hear them.

If you know of a reason somebody should not be on here, I'd love to hear that too. There are some controversial choices here, some people I've hemmed and hawed about, but in the end they're still on the list.

In no particular order:

Rachel Corrie

Aaron Bushnell

Sophie Scholl

Irena Sendler

Eugeniusz Łazowski

Mary Schweitzer. I know who she is but I'm including her anyway. Takes guts to do what she did

Temar Boggs

Juan Pujol García

Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson

Robert Smalls

Temar Boggs

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Aitzaz Hassan Bangash Shaheed. Might already be on here; I need to alphabetize this list

Sal Khan. Yeah, I'm including him

Irena Sendler

Neerja Bhanot

Iqbal Masih

Tank man

Stephen Ruth. The guy with the cameras. He's no tank man, but why not, he's on the list

Malala Yousafzai

Narendra Dabholkar

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sophie Scholl

Charles Hazlitt Upham

Wang Weilin

John Rabe (? ... Kind of questionable for obvious reasons. He saved a couple hundred thousand Chinese people though. I don't know. He was what he was.)

Baron Jean Michel P.M.G. de Selys Longchamps, DFC

Aitzaz Hasan Bangash

Daniel Hale

Hannie Schaft

Reality Winner … I guess

Aki Ra

Norman Borlaug

Neil Armstrong

Stanislav Petrov

Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov

William Kamkwamba

Donald A Henderson

Freddie Oversteegen

Daryl Davis and his collection of robes

Jacinto Convit

Sir Nicholas Winton

August Landmesser

Jonas Salk

Carl Lutz

Giorgio Perlasca

Derrick Nelson, principal of Westfield High School in New Jersey

Giles Corey

Chiune Sugihara

Sophie Scholl

Ronald McNair? Why not

Khader Adnan

Mordechai Vanunu

Corollary:

I'm not sure how to phrase "the opposite of this list," so I'm just going to call it the opposite of this list. Genuinely villainous people? Too easy, and honestly not what I'm going for. Anyway, I'm going to leave out the obvious like Hitler, Trump and Gaddafi because they're, well, obvious. Actually I'm not really sure what the goal of this list is so I'm just kind of winging it. People not to emulate?

Marvin Heemeyer

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Timeless Screencaps S2.E5 ∙ The Kennedy Curse

I love this episode so much! I really wish they would've saved Kennedy 😥

I love the fact that they brought Kennedy in the present time, poor him, I'd have freaked out too! 🤣

📷 238 Screencaps from the episode have been added in the Timeless Gallery

📷 93 Screencaps of a Young Goran from "Braca Po Materi" (1988) have been added as well in the Gallery.

I thought I'd have been able to finish screencapping" Timeless" Before returning to work, but the weather was so beautiful, that I just couldn't stay inside haha!

Once I'll be done with Timeless, I'll start Screencaping "The Deep" Then it will be "Crossing Lines"

I'm also waiting for "The Boys" Bluray today, The Amazon delivery guy passed on Friday evening, but I couldn't answer since it was like 9:15 PM and I was in the shower... Talk about an hour for delivering packages haha! Why they're always ringing at the door when we're in the shower or on the toilet???? 🤣🤣🤣

Here's a list of movies I own that I need to screencap as well:

-Helen (Bluray) -Elektra (Bluray) -Posljednja volja (DVD) -The Deep End (Bluray) -Practical Magic (Bluray) Keeping this one for Halloween LOL! -Prepoznavanje (MP4 File, thanks to the person who gave it to me, you know who you are :) ) -Spartacus (DVD) -The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (Bought it on Youtube) -Welcome to Sarajevo (DVD)

And Here's the the two movies I don't have, if you ever have them, I'm interested :D -Puska za uspavljivanje -Paranoja

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(I made a speech and rlly messed it up so I'm putting it on here. It's basically about cool women being left out in history/school curriculums)

Historical Acknowledgement of Women

By @humblefryingpan

Good [morning/afternoon] and thank you for coming to listen. I have brought you here to talk about the absence of female lives, achievements and inventions from the school curriculum.

Over the course of history, women have been valued less than men. Even now, while we’re much closer to equality than ever before, women continue to be forgotten and undervalued. This is a huge problem for multiple reasons.

Firstly, we are receiving a tainted version of the past that changes key information. A common example of this would be Rosalind Franklin’s discovery of the double-helix DNA structure being credited to Watson and Crick. Instead of teaching us about Franklin, exam boards focus on the people who stole her work. While this fact is becoming more recognised lately, it is still not on school curriculums. Plus, in standardised tests, she will not be mentioned in any question about her discovery.

And secondly, the presence of women in history is important because children and teenagers often look to historical figures for inspiration. This can shape lives and change how kids see the world and for women there is an extremely limited choice of role models.

When I was a child, I idolised Marie Curie because she was one of the only women I had heard of that invented something. I don’t want to be a scientist, but there weren’t many female achievements that would be known to children. I knew of a few artists, because of my family. I knew some authors, because I liked to read. But most of these women were women I had found outside of school, I hadn’t actually been taught about them.

People try to make science more appealing to young girls. People think that if there is a problem, it’s that women don’t want to do science. People think that because you never hear about female scientists’ discoveries, but this isn’t because women don’t want to be scientists, its because when they are, they might as well be invisible.

Without the internet would you know that without the actress Hedy Lamarr inventing frequency hopping during World War two, we wouldn’t have Wi-Fi, GPS or Bluetooth? Her invention is currently valued at around $30 billion but she didn’t get paid anything for her patent. We never learn about her despite the fact she changed how the world currently runs. Without women we wouldn’t have dishwashers, circular saws, car heaters, lifeboats, windscreen wipers or even home security. And most people don’t know about any of those women.

Women’s work gets credited to men. And when it isn’t, it doesn’t get recognised at all. There are women who have done incredible things, invented things that changed the world, done things that saved thousands of lives. But nobody knows who they are. A study has shown that women in science are 13% less likely than men to receive authorship credit for their work. Additionally, women are 59% less likely to be named on patents, even when they work on the same projects.

During the second world war a woman called Irena Sendler worked in the Warsaw ghetto so that she could sneak children and infants out in burlap sacks. She was able to save over 2500 children before the Nazis caught and severely injured her. She had kept the names of every single child in a jar buried under a tree in her backyard, and after the war she located all the parents that had survived, the other kids being placed in foster homes or getting adopted.

In 2007, Sendler was nominated to win the Nobel Peace Prize but lost to a man named Al Gore who created a slideshow on global warming. Without her risking her life and safety, all those children would have been killed but she still got less recognition than a man’s slideshow.

Women have always been doing things as remarkable as men have, but we only ever learn about the male side of the past. When we learn what women’s roles were, we learn about housewives and mothers and while these are also valued lifestyles, we don’t get the full truth of what women have been doing since.

If we only knew the women we learnt about in school, we’d probably believe they never left the house. That they weren’t as clever, weren’t as brave, weren’t as interesting as men and that isn’t true. Women have always been working as hard as men do and when people say they were working ‘behind the scenes’ it is simply because historians pointed the cameras away from them.

Women deserve to learn about other women. Everyone deserves to see somebody like them that is presented the way men got presented. More female achievements need to appear on the school curriculum. Thank you for listening.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGki_QB9_M

Free Talmud lesson!  Sanhedrin 37a:13 tells us “anyone who sustains one soul from the Jewish people, the verse ascribes him credit as if he sustained an entire world.”

During the Second World War, Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker, saved about 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, largely by stashing really little kids in a toolbox and toting bigger ones in a burlap sack.  She also had a dog that she trained to bark at Nazis to distract them when she was leaving the ghetto.  The sheer chutzpah that it took to do this is not lessened by the fact that the Nazis tended to be stupid as well as cartoonishly evil.  Sendler kept identifying information about the children stashed away, and after the war, she tried her best to reunite them with their parents, though most of the parents didn’t survive the Holocaust.  She lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore in 2007, but she was named among the Righteous of the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1965.

She is someone we do not forget, because she saved many entire worlds.