Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)

Subject: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: GUEST,Wolfgang (on a wrong computer)
Date: 12 May 08 - 01:00 PM

Sendler, savior of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies

"Today I know well that I have not done everything possible. I could have saved more. I feel a pang of conscience and will feel it until I die" (Irina Sendler)

Tortured for weeks, very closely escaping death, wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life, she feels she has not done enough. Incredible, awe inspiring and humbling.

Wolfgang (in tears)

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 12 May 08 - 06:22 PM

Not wishing to appear be rude or insensitive, but what exactly is the musical connection here?

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: Gulliver
Date: 12 May 08 - 07:11 PM

I think that comment is pretty insensitive, GUEST Greycap.

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 May 08 - 07:52 PM

a very inspiring story

"People who stand up for others, for the weak, are very rare. The world would have been a better place if there were more of them,"

sandra (also teary)

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 May 08 - 08:01 PM

Thank goodness there were and are, somewhere, people like her. Angel, indeed, and the humbleness of a saint.

RIP, Mrs. Sendler, you've deserve it.

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 12 May 08 - 08:12 PM

There is always one like Greycap. Sad.

BH

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 12 May 08 - 09:30 PM

Thanks for the notice. What an extraordinary woman ...

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 12 May 08 - 09:42 PM

Zichrono Livracha.

biLL

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 May 08 - 10:12 PM

At least Greycap tried to phrase it nicely. Perhaps s/he doesn't know that all obit threads begin above the line until they are moved by a moderator.

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 May 08 - 08:07 PM

A good person, very brave, and a long time survivor.

She done good!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: Teribus
Date: 14 May 08 - 01:26 AM

The Obituay I read yesterday states that she was inspired by her father, a doctor who died in 1917 tending poor Jews suffering from Typhus. From his example she firmly believed that if anyone, but particularly the poor, the weak, the defenceless, were in need of help then it was your duty to help them. The example she used to give was that if you see someone drowning in a river, you jump in and try to save them irrespective of whether you can swim or not.

Rest I Peace a kind and noble lady.

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: Deskjet
Date: 14 May 08 - 03:04 AM

An heroic and inspiring life. I was struck by how gentle and kind she looked in those recent photographs.

Subject: RE: Obit: Irina Sendler (Warsaw ghetto Angel)
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 May 08 - 04:10 AM

She saved over two thousand Polish Jewish children, including babies she removed to safety by placing them in workman's bags and larger children by hiding them in coffins. She was very brave in a terrifying time.

great post, Wolfgang.

freda