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Jul 2, 2008 · 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 Gore. Rating:...
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 ...
Mar 21, 2016 · Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008, but did not win.
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In 2007, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In April 2009, the Audrey Hepburn Foundation posthumously awarded Irena Sendler its 2009 Humanitarian Award. Yet it was not for her own sake that Irena was so pleased with the recognition.
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,...
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Jun 7, 2019 · Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker who rescued over 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. She was arrested, tortured, and escaped death, and received many awards, including the Jan Karski for Valor and Courage and Poland's Order of the White Eagle.
August 2005 – Irena Sendler web site reaches 1.5 million hits. April 2006 – The 1 st Irena Sendler Award is given in Warsaw. May 2006 – 200 th presentation of Life in a Jar in New Bedford, Mass. January 2007 – Irena is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. 2007 –Mandatory Holocaust education in Polish schools.
