I’m disappointed that I missed the Hallmark Hall of Fame television docudrama about Irena Sendlerowa. But I came across these comments from Phyllis Chesler that are worth pondering:
… yesterday was the fiend Hitler’s birthday and the day the United Nations chose to open their Durban2 Conference in Geneva. (Makes sense). Oh, how I wish that Irena Sendler were still alive to address this United Nations conference in Geneva which is supposed to be about “racism.” With her sweet, sweet face, and grandmotherly calm, only someone of her moral caliber might be able to explain a thing or two about “racism” and how the UN is currently perverting it, Orwellian style, against the Jews and against Israel. Sendler is not a victim of racism, she fought against it.
We need many more such morally courageous people in the world. And, if we have them, (we very well might), we need to know about them. Perhaps people can launch a YouTube project with this pedagogic and inspiring goal in mind.
Last year I wrote about this incredibly courageous lady, and I repost:
Irena Sendlerowa: Member of the “decent” race.
Irena Sendlerowa had a gentle and sparkling gaze. She was a giant of a human being, working against all odds to wrench 2500 children from the arms of their miserably desperate parents, risking her life as well as others in a daring effort – full of unknowns – to save them from Nazi German extermination in her native Poland.
She belonged to a selected and very tiny group of individuals who make the world a better place.
She didn’t see herself as a heroine.
Irena Sendlerowa was a member of the Zegota movement.
One of the co-founders of this movement, that saved thousands of Jews, during World War II, was another member of the “decent” race, Wladislaw Bartoszewski.
Irena Sendlerowa’s story is poignantly moving, and there are many versions in print now that she has finally gone to meet her Creator. What struck me about her story, is how forgotten it was by the world at large, including her native country.
And here is where I discover the power of good that young people can generate just because they found an inspiring story and became determined to undo an injustice! If it had not been for these American High School students, Irena Sendlerowa’s story might have stayed in the dusty annals of history.
Irena Sendlerowa is now in the company of all those tortured parents who know that it was thanks to this Polish citizen that their children, grand-children and great-grandchildren could go forth and multiply.
Tags: Durban2, Holocaust, Irena Sendler, Irena Sendlerowa, Jewish Ghetto, Poland, UN, World War II