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Jul 2, 2008 · 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. On 12 May 2008, Irena Sendlerowa (commonly known ...
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
Feb 29, 2020 · Irena Sendler and the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Courage and nobility. Today those words often perish on our lips. But from 1940 in the Warsaw ghetto, in the midst of the dehumanisation and appalling degradation of hundreds of thousands of people, their meaning was still fresh and invigorating. Words Irena Sendler had, to a supreme degree, the ...
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, asking why ...
Mar 21, 2016 · Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker who during World War II helped to rescue 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. ... Sendler was nominated for (but did not win) a Nobel Peace Prize.
Sendler was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize by the Polish and Israeli governments, but lost to former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2007, ABC news described the 97-year-old Sendler as “a portrait of strength” for defying “arrest, torture and the threat of death to save 2,500 Jewish ...
Mar 27, 2008 · A nominee for last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Sendler’s personal story also is the subject of a book, “Mother of the Holocaust Children,” published by Muza in Poland and Germany.
