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Jul 2, 2008 · David Mikkelson. Published July 2, 2008. Claim: Irena Sendler, credited with saving 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust, was a candidate for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize but lost out to Al...
e. Irena Stanisława Sendler ( née Krzyżanowska ), also referred to as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland, nom de guerre Jolanta (15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008), [1] 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 ...
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- 12 May 2008 (aged 98), Warsaw, Poland
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Mar 21, 2016 · In 2008, Sendler was nominated for (but did not win) a Nobel Peace Prize. The story of her life was also captured in a 2009 TV movie The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler , which starred Anna ...
Mar 15, 2007 · Irena Sendlerowa, 97, who has been nominated for this year's Nobel peace prize, changed the identity of the children she rescued from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and 1943 and placed them...
In 2003 she won the Jan Karski award for Valor and Courage, having been nominated by the students and Norman Conrad, and by Stefanie Seltzer, president of the World Federation of Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust. In 2007, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
May 18, 2008 · RAZ: The Polish Senate nominated Irena Sendler for the Nobel Peace Prize last year. They held a celebration in her honor but she was too frail to attend, so she sent letter, once again,...
Irena was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Schools have been named after her and a book in Polish and German has been printed. In 2009 the Hallmark Hall of Fame produced The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler for CBS.
