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Friday 16 May 2008

If you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-obit_sendlermay13,0,210624.story

Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker whose ingenuity and daring saved 2,500 Jewish children from extermination in the Holocaust, a feat that went largely unrecognized for 60 years, died Monday in Warsaw. She was 98.She had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia, said Pawel Maciag, a spokesman for the Polish Embassy in Washington.

In paradisum deducant te angeli

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