Irina Sendler, the beautiful little granny with the smile. She is a grandmother, so to speak, of 2,500 Jewish orphans. She smuggled those infant children out of the Warsaw ghetto to save their lives. She built a toolbox with a hollow compartment in the bottom to hide the infants and claimed to be a plumber to get access to the ghetto. She trained her dog to bark at the NAZI military to cover the childrens sounds. She recorded the childrens names, placing them in a sealed glass jar, and buried it in her back yard under a tree in hopes of reuniting the kids with their parents. She was captured, beaten, and tortured--all four limbs intentionally broken--but the childrens names were never revealed. She found the reunion task daunting, because the majority had been exterminated at Auschwitz. But, as you can see, she still smiled until she was 98 and passed away in 2008, having seen too much, sacrificed so much, and been honored so little. Irina didnt brag about her deeds, and lived unnoticed in her obscure life in a little Warsaw apartment until the year 2000, when her acts of mercy were rediscovered by four young female high school history students from Uniontown, Kansas. The girls created a play about Irina and the orphans titled Life in a Jar. How appropriate! auschwitz.dk/sendler.htm Honoring Irina Sendler (15 February 1910 - 12 May 2008)
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