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Vignette-Fly On Eagles Wings

From ghetto where they were so badly used Irene,saved over two thousand Jews- She 'spirited' children out & away Until the Gestapo had their final say Ending Irene's war disabled & abused Irene Sendler 1910-2008 a Polish heroine.Her actions went unrecognised until awarded the Order of the White Eagle in 2003 and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2007(the one awarded to Al Gore).In her last years she was nursed by one of the children she had saved from the ghetto fifty years earlier.

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