Posted by
Curtal Friar on Monday, May 12, 2008 5:33:41 PM
I had not planned on doing any more posts on the Holocaust, at least not this year, but I came across an article today and I just had to make mention of it. Sometime this morning, Monday, May 12, 2008, Irena Sendler passed away at the age of 98. She had been hospitalized for around a month for pneumonia.
Irena was a social worker in Warsaw during World War II, and she led rescue efforts to save Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Sendler and her team rescued many children from the ghetto; records show that she and her people saved almost 2500 kids.