I’m always moved by stories of incredibly selfless people who put the life and well being of others above their own. If the world was filled with people like Irena Sendler, whose story is below, there would be no wars and violence to protect others from.

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There recently was the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendler.

During WW II, 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 tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack for larger kids.

She 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 wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered noise of the kids/infants.

During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs and arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the children 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.

The kids she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.