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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 ...
Feb 29, 2020 · She achieved such fame that a movement began that aimed to put her name forward for the Nobel Peace Prize. And so it came to be that at 97 years young Irena Sendler was nominated for the 2007 addition. She didn’t win.
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...
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 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.
Jun 7, 2019 · In addition to these, Irena was also awarded Poland’s Order of the White Eagle, and has been a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Irena then spent the latter part of her life cared for in Warsaw by a woman called Elzbieta Ficowska.
