I got this in my email this morning. It’s a true story. And I cannot BELIEVE this woman lost the Nobel Peace Prize to stupid Al Gore and his loony movie!!!!
May 12, 2008, marked the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendlerowa. She was born in Germany Poland in 1910. During WWII, Irena, a German Polish woman, received permission from the Nazis to work in the Warsaw ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist.
She had an ulterior motive…
Irena knew the Nazis’ plans for the Jews and smuggled infants out in the bottom of the large tool box she carried. Larger children were placed in a burlap sack in the back of her truck. Also in the back was a dog that she had trained to bark each time the Nazi guards allowed her out of the ghetto and back in.
The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog, and its barking covered any noise made by the infants and small children. Irena managed to smuggle out approximately 2,500 children before she was finally caught.
When she was captured, the Nazis beat her severely, breaking both her arms and her legs.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the children she smuggled out of that Warsaw ghetto and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents who may have survived so she might reunite the child with its family. Most, of course, did not survive the Holocaust, and the vast majority of the surviving children were placed in foster homes or adopted.
Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but she lost to Al Gore, who won the award for presenting a slide show on the philosophy behind global warming.
Read more at a website dedicated to Irena.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Why should Al be ashamed? He was a nominee for the Nobel Prize, not a judge or voter for the winner. And she saved 2500 lives which is very impressive and courageous. However, the fate of humanity is dependent upon whether we can or will reverse the effects of environmental damage. She was a courageous and great woman and she deserves to be recognized for that, no doubt, but she is not Nobel Prize material for her efforts.
August 24th, 2008 at 1:09 am
It’s sick you should use this woman’s heroism to bash Gore. How about all the murderers and losers who won the Nobel Prize, like Kissinger or Begin or Arafat?
August 24th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
This Gore bashing is ridiculous, especially the people who call it “pseudoscience”. There are NO reputable scientists who will tell you that climate change does not exist to some extent. He is just trying to get the issue out there. Don’t blame him for the committee choosing him. He wasn’t as deserving as this woman, but it isn’t like he tried to take the award from her, the committee picked him. I didn’t know there were this many people out there who are this ignorant.
August 24th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I don’t think that winning the Nobel Peace Prize will make much of a difference on what kind of person that she was. sure, she does deserve the highest of honors but I honestly don’t think that the Nobel Peace Prize ever crossed her mind at that time. so what Al Gore got the prize. Martin does have a point, a heroic effort yes, but it wasn’t particularily what the nobel peace prize was all about. i believe in her mind it didn’t matter that she got a trophy and a piece of paper or not. she saved lives. that was what mattered to her. nobody really bothered to put what she thought on the matter either. wether or not she won a prize should not deter us from the fact that she was truely a kind, amazing, couragous woman. we should always remember her. not her prize,or lack there of.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
She should’ve gotten the nobel prize! what a Bullsh*t! Screw Al Gore & all global warming hippies..and their lame THEORIES. She saved children, REAL children not theoretical children! And years of study? Give me a break, Pluto is a planet right? Get over yourself.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Maleficium – I appreciate what you are saying Nobel Prizes I have seen as a Tad farcical any way – but where you say that Pluto is a planet – why do you say that because it may well be so – it is but it is also a long-legged Yaller Dog owned by Mickey Mouse – tell me please could Disney qualify for a Nobel Prise. and was Not Alfred (?) Nobel the inventor of Dynamite – for so I have heard
August 25th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Maleficium- i don’t get your point on “Pluto is a planet right?” Honestly, would we have ever even KNEW about her if she hadn’t gotten nominated? It probably was never her intention to get known because of what she did. of course she saved thousands of lives, and now we know what a wonderful woman she is. what difference does a peice of paper do? does the nobel prize make her a better woman? does not having one make her herioc efforts less?
August 25th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Maleficium- i don’t get your point on “Pluto is a planet right?”
Honestly, would we have ever even KNEW about her if she hadn’t gotten nominated? It probably was never her intention to get known because of what she did. of course she saved thousands of lives, and now we know what a wonderful woman she is. what difference does a peice of paper do? does the nobel prize make her a better woman? does not having one make her herioc efforts less?
August 25th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
It’s sad that people feel the need to debunk a theory with which they disagree. Of course, while exact figures quoted above may not be accurate, the truth is that a large majority of scientists DO accept Global Warming as a reality.
But this is not an end to it. Many of the ideas promoted by proponents of Global Warming will improve our quality of life immeasurably. For example, the proposed Global Smart Grid would provide clean energy, revitalise poor areas of the world with new jobs and trained engineers to help with sanitation and food production, and would practically enforce global co-operation.
Most proponents of Global Warming are actively trying to find ways to better the world we live in. There are a few nutjobs that want to do nothing more than scare people, but most, even if you don’t believe in their ideals, are positive, decent people.
Al Gore is a great figurehead, and while he has made some questionable decisions in both his political and personal life, please raise you hand any that have not. Now, anyone with a hand raised, please discount yourself from any further discussion on the matter, on account of being a conceited fool.
Onto the actual topic of the post: This woman was remarkable. What she did required great courage and a loving heart. But, as has already been mentioned, many others at the time took actions just as great, just as courageous and just as caring.
Furthermore, the Nobel Prize has *always* been political. It is a symbol, a way for work that is seen as important to be given an official endorsement, in order that the public, and in some cases, government officials will take it seriously. It is not given out to individuals for the saving of 2500 lives, an achievement which is in no way meaningless, but which is simply not a part of the goals of the award.
For me, the choice is very simple: We must better the world today, or the memories of yesterday will perish with us.
Remember Irene and all others like her, people the likes of whom make the world a brighter place to live. But you do not need to hate another in order to do so.
August 25th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
She was a god’s tool, and i belive she was rewarded in heaven.
this is another sign of Jesus, he is truth and live, because he puts love in the human beings…
search him!
August 25th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
AL who???? what a waste of a Nobel prize giving it to him. This wonderful lady is now receiving her well earned reward in heaven.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Heaven or not (I’m an atheist myself), this lady made a big difference right here on Earth. She sets a great example for humanity. God bless her (yes, atheists can say that too)!
August 26th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Well and good Octopus – that is a great comment – I am heathen myself and have all the Norse Pantheon to talk to but it does not stop me saying Godbless when I think of the way she put her life on the line – what is it the Christians say – it goes like “If ye have done this for the least of my little ones ye have done it for Me” did not their Jesus say that – and indeed aint it the God-Blessed Truth – this lady’s whole life must have been one long prayer – God bless her indeed
January 17th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
And to add a little insult to injury:
Global warming is a hoax.
Damn.
Someone go kick those media seeking scientists and the jackass ALGORE in the balls please.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:41 am
She did not receive the prize because we live in a world of meaningless audio-video, fueled in part by vapid leaders that have no substantial knowledge of the world’s problems or the possible solutions to the problems. Gore was a bore, his “science” was thin, and he made more than a few error of statement.