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In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  irenasendler.org
Irena had made false documents for people in the Warsaw area from 1939 to 1942, helping save many, BEFORE she joined the underground Zegota and started saving children.
Irena wants us to mention that twenty-five others were under her guidance in saving children from the Ghetto, and a number of others were helping outside the Ghetto.
Irena celebrated her 96th birthday in February of 2006, she is still in good health and continues to inspire many.
www.irenasendler.org   (1951 words)

  
 The Polish Jews Forum
Irena Sendlerowa was a social worker before the war.
Sendlerowa would dress up as a nurse and together with some helpers she would bring food, medications and money to the ghetto.
Sendlerowa was sentenced death by the Germans, but thanks to high bribe paid by ‘Zegota’, she was executed solely ‘in the report’.
fzp.jewish.org.pl /english/news/fullnews.php?id=106   (453 words)

  
 abjad
Irena Sendlerowa wird 1910 in der polnischen Stadt Otwock geboren.
Irena Sendlerowa verschafft sich Zugang zum Warschauer Ghetto und schmuggelt zusammen mit HelferInnen 2.500 jüdische Kinder aus dem Ghetto, um sie in polnischen Familien, Klöstern und Waisenhäusern unterzubringen.
Irena Sendlerowa was born 1910, in the Polish town Otwock.
www.jfw.at /2005/34.htm   (252 words)

  
 No King But Jesus
Few had heard of Irena Sendlerowa in 1999, now after 170 presentations of Life in a Jar, a web site with huge usage and world-wide media attention, Irena is known to the world.
Irena wants us to mention that ten others were under her guidance in saving children from the Ghetto, and a number of others were helping outside the Ghetto.
Irena celebrated her 95th birthday in February of 2005, she is still in good health and continues to inspire many.
www.nokingbutjesus.com /warsaw.htm   (1868 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Holocaust heroine's survival tale
Irena Sendlerowa recently celebrated her 95th birthday in her small room in a Warsaw nursing home.
At the time, Irena Sendlerowa was a 30-year-old nurse who worked for the city's health and care department.
Mrs Sendlerowa continued her work, but on 20 October 1943, she was arrested at her home.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4314145.stm   (1182 words)

  
 Social Work & Society - The Long Path to Irena Sendler - Mother of the Holocaust Children
I found out that Irena Sendler has been bestowed with the highest honor in Poland, the Order of the White Eagle and that she is an honorary citizen of Israeland that she had received other honors.
Irena used her papers as a Polish social worker and papers of the workers of the Contagious Disease Department (as part of the underground Zegota) to enter the Warsaw Ghetto.
Irena (code name Jolanta) was arrested on October 20, 1943 …and placed in the notorious Pawiak prison, were she was constantly questioned and tortured.
www.socwork.net /2006/1/historicalportraits/wieler   (3150 words)

  
 The Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage - From the Web Editor
Irena Sendlerowa (Elizabeth Cambers), wearing a coat and kerchief, heads toward the Ghetto to rescue Jewish children.
Irena writes the child's name on a card and puts it in a jar which she buries in the garden.
In her next letter Irena Sendlerowa welcomed me as the newest member of the group, and told me she loved me as much as the other girls.
polish-jewish-heritage.org /eng/kansas_muszynska.htm   (5055 words)

  
 Galicia Jewish Museum Shop
Once the Warsaw ghetto was established, Irena was able to secure special work passes for herself and several colleagues to enter the ghetto, where they would meet with different families for them to hand over their children.
In 1965, Irena Sendlerowa was recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Israel.
In September 2006, exhibition photographer and the founder/director of the Galicia Jewish Museum, Chris Schwarz, was privileged to meet Irena Sendlerowa in Warsaw, where she invited him to photograph her and to talk about her experiences.
www.galiciajewishmuseum.org /shop_eng   (509 words)

  
       Saving Children - Irena Sendlerowa        The WE News Archives           (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
At the time, Irena Sendlerowa was a 30-year-old nurse who worked for the city's health and care department.   Since 1939 she had been taking enormous risks giving Jews food and shelter.   The penalty for helping Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland was death.   It was a threat that was often carried out.
Mrs Sendlerowa and a colleague, Irena Schultz, were allowed to enter the ghetto using special work passes.   They smuggled children out in ambulances, through the sewers, or through a courthouse on the edge of the ghetto, which had a passage leading to the "Aryan" side.
Mrs Sendlerowa continued her work, but on 20 October 1943, she was arrested at her home.   She was taken to the notorious Gestapo headquarters in central Warsaw and tortured.   During the sessions they broke her legs and feet but she refused to reveal any names.
www.thewe.cc /contents/more/archive2005/march/irena_sendlerowa.htm   (1882 words)

  
 Irena Sendler - Hid Children's Names in a Jar
Irena Sendler was a member of Zegota, who, at great risk, rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto and placed them with Christian families.
Sendlerowa tries to convince a reluctant Jewish mother in the ghetto to trust her with her child.
"If it were not for Irena (Sendler) I would not be here with you." Ficowska showed the students a silver spoon that her parents had engraved with her name and date of birth, that was carried out with her.
www.holocaustforgotten.com /sendler.htm   (1187 words)

  
 The Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage -
By inaugurating the Award the organizers wish to honor the person of Irena Sendlerowa as well as to propagate the ideas and attitudes she has remained faithful to.
The Award is addressed to primary and secondary school teachers from the United States and from Poland, who have been proved to educate their students in the spirit of tolerance and respect for the others.
Irena Sendlerowa for their contribution in propagation knowledge about the Holocaust amongst young people, are two school teachers: Mr.
polish-jewish-heritage.org /eng/06-03_Press_Release.html   (691 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
M.M. Irena Sendlerowa, the Polish underground activist who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, has been given an American award, For Valor and Courage.
Brzeziński recalled that Poland was the only country in Nazi-occupied Europe where giving protection to Jews was punished with an unconditional death sentence, without a court trial or the possibility of defense, meted out not only to the person giving shelter but to their entire family.
The ceremony gathered many people saved by Sendlerowa, activists of Jewish organizations in the United States, and representatives of American politics, including Daniel Fried, the director for Europe and Eurasia in the National Security Council, and former ambassador to Poland.
www.warsawvoice.pl /printArticle.php?a=4018   (334 words)

  
 Midweek Perspectives: The case of Jedwabne
Some of those saviors are still alive, such as Irena Sendlerowa, 91, of Warsaw who saved 2,500 Jewish children, changing their identity documents during the war.
Sendlerowa was a member of group called "Zegota," which was part of the Polish resistance dedicated to rescuing their Jewish countrymen.
There was only one article in American newspapers about Sendlerowa, a dozen or so about Zegota -- and 164 articles about the massacre in Jedwabne.
www.post-gazette.com /forum/20010725edgere25p5.asp   (942 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - An Honor and a Privilege
Two teachers, an American and a Pole, were honored with the Irena Sendlerowa Award "For Fixing the World." This was the first edition of the award, founded as an initiative by the Children of the Holocaust Association in Poland and the American "Life in a Jar" Foundation.
Elżbieta Ficowska, president of the Children of the Holocaust Association, whose members include people saved by Żegota, says the initiators of the award wanted to honor Sendlerowa and promote the ideals and attitudes she represented.
The award is addressed to teachers in elementary and high schools in the United States and Poland whose achievements prove that they teach tolerance and respect for others.
www.warsawvoice.pl /view/11041   (281 words)

  
 Irena Sendler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1999 Norm Conard, a high school teacher from Pittsburg, Kansas, encouraged four students to investigate the life of Irena Sendler.
As a result of their findings, the students created a play, entitled "Life in a jar", which presented the heroic acts Mrs.
Conard, with the aid of the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert, nominated Irena Sendler to the Nobel Peace Prize.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irena_Sendlerowa   (450 words)

  
 World War 2: Zegota - Council for Aid to Jews
And Zofia Kossak was to prove invaluable in locating homes for women and children because of her close ties to the Catholic clergy as well as to the upper classes, especially the landed gentry.
Irena Sendlerowa, one of their first recruits, was an administrator in the Warsaw Welfare Department, who already had an established wide network among medical and social workers.
The Bund, represented by Leon Feiner had long-standing contacts with Polish socialists, and Adolf Berman had extensive professional contacts – he was a noted psychologist – with Poles and with ghetto welfare workers in CENTOS.
www.warsawuprising.com /zegota.htm   (4143 words)

  
 Marek Jan Chodakiewicz: The Dialectics of Pain. Part II.
In one instance socialist Irena Sendlerowa of the Home Army miscarried after she was abused by the UB.
In the fall of 1944, AK soldier Irena Antoszewska-Rembarzowa was interrogated by the NKVD in Lublin.
Although pregnant, she was ordered to strip and when she refused, her Soviet interrogator beat her on her head until she fainted.
www.projectinposterum.org /docs/chodakiewicz2.htm   (4887 words)

  
 Irena Sendler
The Irena Sendler Project's links to other webpages about Sendler.
An account of how, under the noses of the Germans and in the face of their ongoing extermination of Jews in Warsaw, Sendlers managed to have Jewish parents entrust her with their children so that they might be saved from the Holocaust by being secretly "adopted" by Christian families.
A March 2005 BBC retelling of Irena Sendlerowa story in the wake of her 95th birthday.
info-poland.buffalo.edu /web/history/hist_persons/sendler/link.shtml   (122 words)

  
 Judaica - ANNUAL PROGRAM REPORT
Irena Sendlerowa, who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Center for Jewish Culture, the Polish Post Office issued special stamp and Cracow’s Gazeta Wyborcza daily published a special insert to the edition of November 24th, 2003.
Irena Sendlerowa and Her Children - meeting with Elżbieta FICOWSKA, Chairperson of the Children of the Holocaust Society (60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING)
www.judaica.pl /english/raport2003.htm   (4583 words)

  
 Poland is Israel's New Best Friend
The idea was advanced by Polish President Lech Kaczynski during his visit to Israel last month and received the enthusiastic support of Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
The proposed Nobel candidate, Irena Sendlerowa, 96, is a Polish Catholic who oversaw the children's section of Zegota, the Polish underground body that saved 15,000 Jews during World War II.
Through her efforts, 2,500 Jewish children escaped death at the hands of the Nazis.
freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1723054/posts   (1404 words)

  
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stekng.farvista.net /975.htm   (457 words)

  
 Part II - Heroes and Heroines of the Holocaust
As head of the children's section of Zegota, the Polish underground Council for Aid to Jews, social worker Irena Sendlerowa ("Jolonta") helped smuggle more than 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto.
Hiding them in orphanages, convents, schools, hospitals, and private homes, she provided each child with a new identity, carefully recording in code their original names and placements so that surviving relatives could find them after the war.
Arrested by the Gestapo (German secret state police) in the fall of 1943, Sendlerowa was sentenced to death.
isurvived.org /TOC-II.html   (2469 words)

  
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