Rantings of a New Yorker » hero http://www.rantingnewyorker.com If you can't handle swearing, get off the internet. People suck, including me, and these are my rantings. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:02:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Irena Sendler, a true inspiration http://www.rantingnewyorker.com/index.php/2009/07/04/irena-sendler-a-true-inspiration/ http://www.rantingnewyorker.com/index.php/2009/07/04/irena-sendler-a-true-inspiration/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:13:22 +0000 admin http://www.rantingnewyorker.com/?p=715

During WWII, Irena was given permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive. Being German, Irena knew what the Nazi plan was for Jews.

Irena smuggled out infants in the bottom of a tool box she carried in the back of her truck. She used a burlap sack for bigger children. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 infants and children, before she was caught! The Nazi’s broke both her legs and arms, and beat her severely.

A rural school in Kansas now keeps her legacy alive.

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