Runner up for Nobel Peace Prize
By katsmeow1213
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
United States
August 31, 2008 11:02pm CST
Did you hear about this? I just got this e-mail...
Irena Sendlerowa
1910-2008
May 12 marked the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena.
During WWII, Irena received permission from the Nazis to work in the Warsaw ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist.
She had an ulterior motive...
Being German, she 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 d og, 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.
Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but she lost to Al Gore, who won the award for presenting a slide show on Global Warming.
Verified on snopes
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sendler.asp
1 response
@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
1 Sep 08
Here are some things you 'conveniently' left out of the Snopes article:
"It's difficult to state categorically that she was "nominated" for the award, since information about Nobel Prize "nominations, investigations, and opinions is kept secret for fifty years.""
"In 2007, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former U.S. Vice-President Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."" (emphasis added)
Even the IFSW, the group that was hoping she'd get the prize, did not come even close to insinuating that the actual recipients did not deserve it, and they acknowledged that it was a very important issue that also deserved recognition.
Stop being so petty, and don't trivialize the work of the people who actually received the award in 2007. I wonder: do you have a problem with everyone ELSE who has received the Nobel Peace Prize since the Holocaust ended, too?
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
1 Sep 08
First of all, I don't control this Scopes website, so what it left out is not my fault. I stated I had gotten it in an e-mail, so what you see here is what I saw as well. But honestly, do you think a global warming slide show is better than a woman who actually saved lives? I don't. I think this woman should have gotten the prize regardless.
BTW, your responses don't need to be so rude, I guess this is why your star is so low.
@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
1 Sep 08
"First of all, I don't control this Scopes website, so what it left out is not my fault."
1. It's Snopes.
2. I'm talking about things IN the Snopes article that you ignored, not things that Snopes didn't 'report' on.
"honestly, do you think a global warming slide show is better than a woman who actually saved lives?"
1. Lives are also being saved by informing people on something that has the potential to make the Earth uninhabitable to humans.
2. AGAIN, you act petty and childish in trivializing the IPCC AND Gore's work. You referring to all that work as merely a "slide show" would be like me describing what Sendlerowa did as "playing dress-up". Maybe now you'll understand how childish you're being.
"BTW, your responses don't need to be so rude"
You're the one being rude by trivializing the hard and vital work done by the recipientS (AGAIN, it wasn't just Gore) of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. As I said:
Even the IFSW, the group that was hoping she'd get the prize, did not come even close to insinuating that the actual recipients did not deserve it, and they acknowledged that it was a very important issue that also deserved recognition.
It's completely disrespectful and ignorant to refer to the IPCC's and Gore's work as merely a "slide show", and the IFSW clearly has a lot more class than you in being able to express disappointment without trying to knock other achievements as if they aren't also important.
So look to the board in your eye before you call someone else "rude". What if Sendlerowa won the prize, and I came here saying that the IPCC should have won it, because all Sendlerowa did was play dress-up? Wouldn't you think that was disrespectful?
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
2 Sep 08
Global warming is something that's been talked about for years, since I was a small child. And it's going to keep on being talked about for decades to come. We see how well people react to these major events. Look at our oil crisis. I don't see anyone actually MOVING to make a change with that. So no, I truly don't believe that coming up with some information about global warming is better than a person who saved over 2,000 lives. But I bet you'd feel different if one of those lives saved was your parents or grandparents.
