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Irena Sendler z"l
I've been poring over the day's bad news (there's a lot!)- the death toll from the earthquake in China is currently over 8500, catastrophic weather has caused two dozen deaths in the south and plains regions of the US and the situation in Burma keeps getting worse (why haven't we formed a multi-country alliance to go in there, take out the government and distribute aid to the people?).
This story stood out, too. Irena Sendler died today at age 98 . She is responsible for saving 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto, smuggling them out and hiding them. The children survived- hidden as Christians, although Ms. Sendler wrote their real names on tissue paper which she kept hidden in bottles, intending to return the children to Jews after the war.
Irena Sendler was awarded a Yad Vashem Righteous Gentile medal in 1965 and was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 2007.
Baruch Dayan Emet.
It’s interesting to note that much of the world would have never heard
about Irena Sendler’s heroic acts if it wasn’t for a few high school
students from rural Kansas. These kids started the Irena Sendler Project a
few years back and they continue to put on presentations called Life In a
Jar to celebrate Sendler’s contributions.