This was posted on Facebook, I found it rather interesting/appalling.


There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena Sendler. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' . She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the to...ol box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises..

During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming
At first I was a bit in disbelief. I mean yes Global Warming is important... but surely they wouldn't choose that over someone who helped save 2500 children, would they?

So I googled, found a Wikipedia entry on her. It is fairly accurate to the above quote, take a look see if you want. Here's the Snopes entry too.

Thoughts? Do you agree with the awarding of Al Gore (part of it was his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth")?

Here's a blurb as to how they deem who gets to be a Nobel Peace Prize Laureates:

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award.