Note from Midwest Christian Outreach Ministry

Take Notice of this Act of Mercy

War is never nice and the toll is difficult for family and friends to reconcile many times. Joy and I are very interested in history and the Second World War has always captured our attention. Some of the worst atrocities on mankind were committed and some of the most heroic and selfless acts in an attempt to save defenseless humans were carried out. One such story is that of Irena Sendler who has been attributed with saving 2,500 children during the holocaust. You may have seen an email going around recently the contents of which Snopes has confirmed.

There recently was the 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 her tool box she carried, and she also 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 and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save some 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs and 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, of course, had been gassed. Those kids she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted. Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She LOST.
.........Al Gore won for doing a slide show on Global Warming.