Re: Irene Sendler
Dear Dan,
Thank you very much for your e-letter on the late Mrs Irena Sendler. I am one of her admirers that’s why I have written my article about her life. In the past, I did much work on history of the WWII in Poland, interviewing former inmates of Nazi concentration campas, Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and other people. A part of my work also appeared in a book by Mrs. Yoshino Oishi (a fine Japanese reporter and photographer), with whom I made a documentation in Poland in the mid-1980s.
The rescue work of Irena is almost “incredible” but true. She risked her life so many times to save Jewish children and youngsters from the hand of the German Nazi murderers. Glory to her, forever.
I don’t think Al Gore “stole” the Nobel Peace Prize from Mrs. Irena. It’s just the decision of the Nobel Prize Committee, more and more influenced by politics and less by goodwill and understanding of what is the most important to the World’s ordinary people and not to the ruling groups.
By the way, a shorter version of my article (in English), appeared in June (Czerwiec) 2008 in an independent cultural magazine “The Polish Panorama” in Edmonton AB, Canada.
You may read it at: http://www.panoramapolska.ca/, choosing the middle cover (czerwiec) and finding it in the pdf version of the magazine.
If you wanted to place my article(s) about Irena Sendler on a blog or other Internet magazine in texas, please go ahead. Just mention the original source of the publication. No charge at all.
Best regards
DAVID
