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THIS MONTH’S COURAGE AWARD…...
....goes to a 97-year old Polish lady named Irena Senderlowa
who helped save the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during the Nazi Holocaust….(when) she banded together with a group of social worker colleagues in 1940 to secretly rescue Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.
This is the first time I remember hearing the name Irena Senderlowa…..what about you? MmmHmmmm, I thought so.
Why is that, I wonder?
...today’s Western press seems loathe to cover inconvenient stories of heroes who risked life and limb to save the Jews from the murderous hands of the Nazis. Compound that with the fact that this is a story that involves Catholic charity and you have all the elements necessary to relegate her accomplishments to a passing reference somewhere in the back of a newspaper, never again to inconvenience the Holocaust deniers or those who prefer to remember the war through the prism of Hollywood’s warped lens.
This wasn’t a matter of just taking the kids out in the back of a car, either. Many of these “do-gooders” paid with their lives for attempting to rescue a Jewish child. Irena herself was caught,
...when the German Gestapo arrested her for her suspected involvement with Zegota (the Polish underground). They tortured her and imprisoned her to gather information. During the harsh interrogations she suffered broken legs and feet and other brutal acts of torture that almost crippled her for life.
But Sendlerowa stuck to her story and was sentenced to be executed. Yet again this brave woman bucked the fate of so many others by escaping the firing squad and even fooling the Gestapo into proclaiming her death.
READ THE WHOLE THING and ponder the question…..What would I do under similar circumstances? Perhaps more important, What is my obligation to God, under such circumstances?
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