Monday, November 8, 2010

Lest we forget......

The prizes doesn't always go to the most deserving.

There  recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena.

During  WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the WarsawGhetto, as a Nurse.
She had an 'ulterior motive' .. She  KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.)
Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried in the back of her truck.
She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out  of the ghetto.
The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog  and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500  kids/infants.
She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs,  arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar ,
buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family.

Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year  Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not  selected.


Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global  Warming.
She died, whilst being nursed by one of the children she saved from the gas


It is now more than  60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.  
This e-mail is being sent as a  memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million  Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who  were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and  humiliated!

Now, more than ever, with Iraq , Iran , and others,  claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it's imperative to make sure  the world never forgets, because there are others who would like  to do it again.

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