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Nightmares, Again
May. 13th, 2008 06:09 amThis is a pain. Always with the nightmares, keeping me awake when I want to sleep.
I got up early, again, and recorded the dawn chorus. Which was beautiful.
And then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_gaslight showed me this sad news link.
"A woman who risked her life saving 2,500 Jewish children from the gas chambers died yesterday aged 98.
"Irena Sendler, a social worker, smuggled them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and gave them false identities.
"She died at a Warsaw hospital after she had been in hospital for a month with pneumonia.
"Mrs Sendler was serving as a social worker with the city's welfare department during World War II when she masterminded the risky rescue operations of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.
"Records show that her team of some 20 people saved nearly 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between October 1940 and April 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, shooting the residents or sending them to death camps."
I'm reminded of a story last year in April 2007, about that gentle Professor who died at Virginia Tech, saving the lives of students, and having survived both Hitler's Holocaust and Ceaucescu's brutal regime.
They don't really make heroes like this any more. Or if they do, they're fewer and further between than ever. And absolutely none of them in the halls of power.
I got up early, again, and recorded the dawn chorus. Which was beautiful.
And then
lady_gaslight showed me this sad news link."A woman who risked her life saving 2,500 Jewish children from the gas chambers died yesterday aged 98.
"Irena Sendler, a social worker, smuggled them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and gave them false identities.
"She died at a Warsaw hospital after she had been in hospital for a month with pneumonia.
"Mrs Sendler was serving as a social worker with the city's welfare department during World War II when she masterminded the risky rescue operations of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto.
"Records show that her team of some 20 people saved nearly 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between October 1940 and April 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, shooting the residents or sending them to death camps."
I'm reminded of a story last year in April 2007, about that gentle Professor who died at Virginia Tech, saving the lives of students, and having survived both Hitler's Holocaust and Ceaucescu's brutal regime.
They don't really make heroes like this any more. Or if they do, they're fewer and further between than ever. And absolutely none of them in the halls of power.
