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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Who deserved better 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.?

Irena Sendler - who recently died at 98 years of age, was a 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee

During WWII, Irena was given permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive.

Being German, Irena knew what the Nazi plan was for Jews.

Irena smuggled out infants in the bottom of a tool box she carried in the back of her truck. She used a burlap sack for bigger children.

She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with her dog.. The barking covered noises of the infants and children.

Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 infants and children, before she was caught! The Nazi's broke both her legs and arms, and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record in a jar buried under a tree in her back yard of all the children she smuggled out.

After the war, she tried to locate all parents that may have survived to reunite families, but most had been gassed.

The children she could not reunite were placed with foster families or adopted.

Irena was nominated for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won for a slide show on Global Warming.

Help send this email around the world so that this 'noble' lady is remembered for her bravery.

What do you think this amazing woman or the stupidity of some people's concept of whats important?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Al Gore's environmental movie is a means by which to convince people there is a crisis so that government can takeover the economy (socialism). The Nobel Prize is given out by Swedish socialists....go figure.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    No, the only solid element he has completed exchange into make different countries no longer hate us as lots No, i could no longer vote for him. yet while i'd desire to, i does no longer have. No, he has completed no longer something to earn the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I do remember her story. I certainly wouldn't have been surprised or disappointed if she had won the Nobel prize. However, its no longer 2008. I think you would do better to focus on her selfless act of heroism rather than ranting about Gore.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    She does deserve a nobel prize i thought your text was gonna be dumb old and boring, yes they should give it to her before her time goes to an end ,you see people like this who we do not hear about.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Al Gore.

  • 1 decade ago

    Rigged, politically correct voting process

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