She was a tough broad.
As we've written over the years this woman saved 2500 children sometimes hauling one out of the Warsaw ghetto in a suitcase or a couple more under a caterers cart or a dozen in a truck. When the Nazi's caught and tortured her she came back to the saving-kids-biz despite two broken legs, broken ankles and broken arms.
The Jews named her one of The Righteous Among The Nations and planted a tree in her honor.
It is at the entrance to Yad Vashem where anyone entering has to pass by:
Irena Sendler, Nobel Peace Prize Candidate, Has Died
after tracking her nomination for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
The betting markets had her as second choice behind Al Gore. There were also some Burmese Buddhist monks and a couple dozen other nominees.
Mr. Gore of course won. Well he and the UN's IPCC who had delivered the AR4 Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report in February and who were looking forward to the 13th Conference of the Parties in Bali that December.
Tthere was no way the woman in the photo was going to win in 2007, no matter how many kids she saved from certain death and no matter how many of her bones the Gestapo broke.
She might have won in 2008 but she died. And the Nobel folks don't award posthumous prizes.
