Irena Sendlerowa Irena Sendlerowa was born in February 15, 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, but she grew up in Otwock. During this time, in 1914, the World War I begins between Rusia, Germany and Austria, and Poland becomes a battlefield. Later, Irena’s father dies, when Irena was just 7 years old in 1917. As a result, Irena and her mother move to Warsaw. Irena learned of her father that everyone we are equals in all aspects. However, when Irena was 13 years old, she gets into trouble at school when she defends her Jewish classmate of bullying of other girls. This way, she continues forming its ideals and continues maintaining relationship with Jewish persons. Next, Irena marries Mieczyslaw Sendlerowa in 1932, so she gets the last name with which she is known. Shortly …show more content…
In 1939, the Nazis made a series of laws, where Jews are excluded of society, but Irena continues to help the Jewish people, giving out medicine, money and clothing. When the Nazis built the Ghetto for to separate the Jewish people, Irena decides to help the Jewish children. While the extermination process starts in 1943, Irena organizes places where she will help children. Shortly after, Irena is arrested and tortured in Pawiak prison. However, she maintained firmly and did not say anything, even with her fractured body. In 1944, Irena is sentenced to death, but she could escape to her execution, and she is hiding with her uncle. In the Warsaw Uprising, she becomes a nurse for the Polish Red Cross at the hospital and continues to help people. The war had been over, and Irena was interrogated by the Security Agency because they thought that she was hiding persons of the Home Army. Later, Irene was awarded with many prizes like “Righteous Gentiles” in 1965, “honorary citizen of Israel” in 1991, “for contributions made to saving the world” in 2002, and the Jan Karski award “For Courage and Heart” in 2003. Finally, Irena was awarded with the Novel Peace Prize, in 2007; and she dies in Poland
It was the beginning of spring in 1944 when her suffering began: Irene and her family were forcibly evacuated from her home and brought to Jewish Street in the Jewish ghettos. They left most of their material possessions behind, carrying what their arms could hold, and lived on the floor of a stranger's house. She described that street as "the dirtiest street [she] ever saw", but she was only there for a few weeks before being relocated to a brick factory. They stayed at that factory for five days, building temporary shelters out of bricks and being hit and forced to do tricks like dogs for the pleasure of the German and Hungarian soldiers, before they and the other Jews were loaded onto cattle trains and sent off to Auschwitz-Birkenau. For three days, Irene and her family-- those who were in the cart, her mother, father, three younger sisters and two of her brothers-- traveled to
Sarah Phulajanma was bored. Her skills as a great ship pilot were not being challenged while working as the largely ceremonial captain of a funeral barge. As middle age set into her waistline, she decided to change her dishwater career circling between a dozen star systems to the more exciting seas of working for a shipping company to assist the expanding frontier colonies in the Verdes Mujeres systems. But the recruitment posters did not warn Sarah of the hardships she was to endure.
A handful of people gathered July 11 in Ermineskin to celebrate the life, death and canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Protectress of Canada. Kateri was born in 1656 in New York state and died in 1680. At the age of 4, she lost her parents and brother to smallpox; she was left with a scarred face and being
My name is Takesha Wright, I am the GAL assigned to Ethan Knotts-Campbell. I understand you've been assigned as GAL for Ethan's mother, Tennetta Knotts. Do you know if she is attending treatment and or parenting classes? If so, where and how does she feel this is going? Thanks in advance.
In the selection, “Isabella Katz And the Holocaust: A Living Testimony”, by Richard L. Greaves, the author tells about the Holocaust, the destruction of the Jews by the Nazis and the terrible experiences of people who were there. Оne of the participants of these events is Isabelle Katz that lived with her family in Hungary. In 1944, Hitler occupied Hungary with the idea to kill all the Jews. One day, fascists took her family and all other Jews from their homes. Later, all of them were transported to the camp of Auschwitz. Upon arrival at the camp, all families were separated. Isabella heard screams of people burning in crematorium within 9 months when she was there. The Jews in the camp were on the brink of their life and death, depending only
Sacajawea is a well-known American-Indian woman. Her expedition with explorers Lewis and Clark was extraordinary. She was born in Tendoy, Idaho around 1788. She was a member of the Lemhi Shoshone tribe. At this time, the American territory ended at the Mississippi River. One year after the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on an expedition that left from St. Louis, Missouri, traveling through the US Northwest, to the Pacific Ocean (History).
Our grade would never be the same without Fraida Rivkah! With her smile and outgoing personality, she makes everyone feel like her best friend. Fraida Rivkah is always up for a challenge, be it a Rubik’s cube, a knitting project, or those adorable paper cranes that seem to just pop up everywhere! However, Fraida Rivkah’s caring nature is not limited to her paper crane orphanage. It is not unusual to find her saying Tehillim for someone in need, as she sincerely cares about everyone, even people she does not know.
Maryusha Antonovksy was no more. In her place stood Mary Antin, the same immigrant Jewish girl but with a new “American” name. Mary had also bought “real American machine-made garments” to replace her “hateful” homemade European-style clothes. “I long to forget,” she said. “It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”
On September 10,1930 there was a girl named NadIne Schatz and she was apart of the Holocaust society which was sad because families were taking away to fight in battles.Nadine was born in Boulogne-Billancourt,France and her mother named was Ludmilla Schatz and was a kind mother and care about her kid making good grades. On the other hand Nadine mother taught piano and she was the most gifted piano teacher in her country.But Nadine was the daughter of immigrant Jewish parents.Her Russian born mother settled in France following the Russian Revolution of 1917.Also Nadine attended elementary school pairs.And so Nadine would go to school and the mother went to work so the grandmother move in with them and she would cook meals for them.One
Children were separated from their parents. Once their parents were safe she believed that they should be reunited with them. Irena wrote down every kids name and where they were staying. “Sendler wrote down all relevant information in a special code on used cigarette papers she collected,” ( “Irena Sendler,” [World Biography] 2). Using code allowed her to know where they were but no one else could get that information. But just writing in code wasn’t safe enough. “These lists of names were then put in jars and buried in the yard of a friend’s house at 9 Ledarska Street in Warsaw,” (“Irena sendler,” [World Biography] 3). The list was safe from the Naxis hands because she buried it. She kept this list in order to reunite them with there parents but unfortunately were died. “ Most of the Ghetto families had died at the Treblinka death camp,”(“Irena Sendler,” [World Biography] 3). Despite her best efforts she wasn’t successful at reuniting them. Irena wanted the children to have there parents and took steps to make that happen, but most of their parents died during the world. The effort she made was notable because after saving them she could be done but she still wanted to help
Riva was fearless throughout the time she spent in the ghetto and camps. In the ghetto Riva spent less time worrying about what the future holds, and instead wrote beautiful poetry. Riva also lost her mother in the ghetto during a Nazi raid; they thought her mother was too weak to work. Riva was courageous enough to keep a family with three young children safe and fed in such harsh living circumstances. At Auschwitz, and later in the work camps at Mittlesteine and Grafenort, Riva was deprived of her dignity when her head was shaven, she “lost” her name, which was replaced by a number, and she wasn’t allowed to study the Torah. Riva was resolute and unswerving through all of this challenges, for example, she still remembered her name even though she was told not to.
Regina Jose Galindo was born in 1974 in Guatemala. She currently lives and works in Guatemala. Regina practices her art works with her own body. Her works are based on violence or any cruelty caused by certain political events and personal disgrace. Those works are open to the public and to whoever relates to what is being depicted in the art work. (Regina Jose Galindo Portfolio, 2014). Galindo won the Golden Lion award in 2005 as the best artist under 35 at the 51st. Venice Biennale. Two years later, she sold this award to a Spanish artist, Santiago Sierra, who in return sold back to a collector. Ironically, in 2011 she decided to order an exact copy of the award to her friends, Angel and Fernando Poyón who were sculptors in Guatemala. Her friends gave her the exact copy, but this time the Golden Lion was casted in bronze coated in Guatemalan gold. Regina’s work is also present in private and public collections, such as the Pompidou, Guggenheim, Rivoli Museum in Torino, or the Miami Art Museum and Cisneros Fontanals Collection in Miami
Eva Galler’s story follows her life before, during, and after the Holocaust. She includes what she and her family endured during these hard times. Eva Galler was born in Poland from a town called Oleszyce. Eva grew up watching her father distribute religious articles. She says that anti-semitism was very strong where she lived.
As a mother your biggest mission in life is to be a protector and everything that your children will ever need and that’s exactly what Sonia was. June 30, 1941 Nazis gained control of the town Zhetel, a small town in Poland that Sonia and her family resided in. The Nazis immediately began to persecute the Jewish population. On July 23, 1941, the Nazis executed 120 prominent Jews. Among those innocent lives was Sonias brother. On February 22, 1942, the Germans ordered that all the Jews in Zhetel be forced into a ghetto called among these names: The Zdzięcioł Ghetto, Dzyatlava Ghetto or Zhetel Ghetto. Two months later they rounded up and killed about 1000 Jewish residents. After this first slaughter, on April 30, a few dozen people escaped from the ghetto into the nearby woods and began to organize into partisan groups. On August 6, 1942, the Germans began the final liquidation of Zhetel. Sam, Sonias husband, was rounded up in a mass sweep of the town and locked together with hundreds of other Jews in the town's synagogue. In the middle of all the confusion, he and a few others hid for about two days and nights. Once it was quiet, they escaped into the woods and joined up with the Jewish Partisans. Meanwhile Sonia hid with her two children in a hiding place her husband established soon after World War 2. They would stay there for three nights with other friends and family until the Nazi massacres
Richart “Reishee” Sowa is a British artist who built a floating artificial island called Joyxee Island. Sowa built his first island in a lagoon near Puerto Aventuras in Mexico in 2005. Locals chased him away from the community. This was a blessing in disguise, however since five days after the altercation, the island was destroyed by Hurricane Pauline. Sowa, then built another one, but its demise was (Deja vu) due to a hurricane. Sowa, then built another one called Joyxee Island on calmer waters in Isla Mujeres, Mexico in the womb of the fish. The womb of the fish is the location of the center of a larger island called the fish. This fish is the island Isla Mujeres. This island is shaped like a fish and is sacred to the Mayan goddess of childbirth