just so you know her name. i didn't, but now i do.
if the world were filled with irenas (and the four kansas students who brought her story back to life) well, we would ALL be happy to be here
tikkun olam
How Holocaust heroine rescued 2,500 children
It took four Kansas teens to bring the world her story
By Kirsten Scharnberg Tribune national correspondent
FT. SCOTT, Kan. - The young Kansas women have become known as the "rescuers of the rescuer."What the four high school students did started out simply enough: collaborate on a National History Day project to write a short play about an event from the past. What they accomplished when it was all said and done has been stunning: discover, research and introduce to the world an unsung Polish heroine of the Holocaust, a woman who daringly saved some 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto yet remained virtually unknown to historians and the public for more than 60 years.................
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This is a great story . . . I never knew . . . wow. I'd love to see the play.
geeze, i couldn't even finish reading the story (all in one sitting) from crying. i can't imagine seeing the play.....(i wear LOTS of eye makeup)
apparently I have an affinity for stories that make people cry . . .
or so I'm told.
shoot. did you hear the dude from california on npr today? single father with 2 daughters. i believe they are twins (but that doesn't matter). he said he was rousted from bed by banging on his door. he got the kids up. it was the cops and there was smoke everywhere. the cops grabbed them and threw them in the patrol car. the man had a dog, cat and three goldfish. he had to leave them. he said he left the door open. as soon as they were in the car, one of the daughters had an asthma attack. the man left EVERYTHING in his house including his wallet. NO MONEY. NO WHERE TO STAY. well national npr ended up putting him on the local station and he begged for help. he got it,someone said they'd take him and the kids in for the night. (but i'm wondering about tomorrow). he was sure his animals died. oh and his house (it was an apartment house) ended up burning down. i was a mess driving.
and i'm thinking if we didn't keep flushing money into iraq, his family (and gulf coast storm victims too) COULD have had a start at a new home
Yeah, I'm thinking about these fires, and the people. Mostly I'm thinking about how the government officials REALLY view this tragedy.
I might include it in tomorrow's post. I'll go look at it now and see if it'll work.
love to read it.............
I couldn't make it fit in . . . so the economics of major disasters is going to be the topic for next Wednesday's post.
rick, whatever you write i feel joy reading
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