Irena Sendlerowa citáty

Irena Stanisława Sendlerowa poslovenčene Sendlerová, rodená Krzyżanowska bola poľská katolícka sociálna pracovníčka, jedna z čelných osobností poľského protinacistického odboja. Bola zakladateľkou, vedúcou a nakoniec aj poslednou žijúcou členkou detského oddelenia Żegoty.

Počas druhej svetovej vojny zorganizovala pod krycím menom Jolanta záchranu asi 2500 židovských detí, z ktorých mnohé osobne vyviedla z Varšavského geta. Zatklo ju gestapo, mučili ju, no neprehovorila. Bola odsúdená k trestu smrti, ale s pomocou Żegoty poprave unikla a ďalej pracovala v odboji.

S nepriazňou mocných zápasila i počas komunistického režimu v Poľsku.

V roku 1965 jej Komisia pre rozpoznávanie spravodlivých pôsobiaca pri pamätníku Jad va-šem udelila titul Spravodlivý medzi národmi, v roku 2003 jej bol udelený Rad bieleho orla. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. február 1910 – 12. máj 2008
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“I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.”

As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4314145.stm

“I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”

As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005)
Kontext: Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.

“Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.”

Quoted in "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto" by Rupert Cornwell in The Independent (14 May 2008)

“I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then.”

Referring to Nazi doctrines that German "Aryans" were a "master-race" of "supermen", as quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005)
Kontext: I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death.

“I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.”

Quoted in "The Long Path to Irena Sendler - Mother of the Holocaust Children" http://www.socwork.net/2006/1/historicalportraits/wieler, by Joachim Wieler Social Work & Society, vol. 4 (2006)

“Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.”

Letter to the Polish Senate (2007), quoted in "Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/world/europe/13sendler.html?em&ex=1210824000&en=cecafcbe4079750b&ei=5087%0A by Dennis Hevesi in The New York Times (13 May 2008)

“Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.”

Letter to the Polish Senate (2007), quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" http://www.auschwitz.dk/Sendler.htm by Louis Bülow (2007)