Irena Sendler

During WWII Irena Sendler got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a sanitation specialist. She had an ulterior motive. Because she was German, she knew what the Nazis' plans were for the Jews. Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack for larger kids. She personally smuggled hundreds of children out of the ghetto, saving their lives.

In 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and tortured, and sentenced to death. A colleague saved her by bribing her executioners on the way to her death. She was listed among those executed, and survived the war.

In 1965, Sendler was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous among the Nations. She received additional high honors, and was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won. Please take a moment and Google her, read about her bravery, and celebrate her life, and the lives of those she saved.