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Dear Friends, Polish Jews Forum has stopped collecting the signatures supporting our initiative. The response to it was overwhelming, its scale had gone far beyond our dreams and expectations. On behalf on Mrs Irena Sendler and our own we want to thank each and every person who decided to support the nomination of Irena Sendler for the Peace Nobel Prize.
Polish Jews Forum will launch future projects in order to make sure that the heroic behavior of numerous people during the WW II will never be forgotten.
Irena Sendler for Nobel Peace Prize
Irena Sendler, born in 1910, during the World War II was involved in helping the Jews. First, disguised as nurse, she provided medicines, food and money to the people living in the Warsaw Ghetto. Later on she was charge of the Children's Division of Zegota (a Polish underground group to assist Jewish people). Irena Sendler used her papers as a Polish social worker and papers from one of the workers of the Contagious Disease Department (who was a member of the underground Zegota) to enter the Warsaw Ghetto.
In the ghetto Irena Sendler contacted many Jewish families and tried to persuade parents to let her help them and smuggle children into the "Aryan side" and then hid them with Polish families. She made lists of the children's real names and put the lists in jars, then buried the jars in a garden, so that someday she could dig up the jars and find the children to tell them of their true identity.
The Nazis captured Irena Sendler, but the Polish underground bribed a guard to release her, and she entered into hiding.
Today Irena Sendler lives in Warsaw, Poland.
Irena Sendler was announced as the 2003 winner of the Jan Karski award for Valor and Courage. She has been honored by international Jewish organizations - in 1965 she accorded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem organization in Jerusalem and in 1991 she was made an honorary citizen of Israel. Irena Sendler was also awarded Poland's highest distinction, the Order of White Eagle in Warsaw Monday Nov. 10, 2003.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee
Henrik Ibsens gate 51
NO-0255 OSLO
Norway
We, Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Poland, Israel, United States of America and other countries would like to express our full and enthusiastic support for the candidacy of a true hero, Irena Sendler, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
More than 60 years since the Holocaust, we pause for one last moment, knowing that this may be the very last opportunity for such a distinguished and honorable institution as The Norwegian Nobel Committee to honor a living person for heroic deeds that are by any measure the very essence of that work which must be not only emulated, but honored, in order to ensure a peaceful future for humankind. Rescuing the most vulnerable of an oppressed minority from the horror of totalitarian mass murder is the quintessence of charity and humanity.
In times of terror and lawlessness, Mrs Irena Sendler and others from the underground resistance organization risked and forfeited their lives for the lives of Jewish children. She is one of the last heroes from the generation of our parents and our grandparents, who when confronted by the unparalleled evil of twentieth century totalitarianism, revealed great bravery, simple conviction, and the power of human will and intention.
This letter was signed by the following:
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We offer heartfelt thanks to all individuals and organizations that supported our initiative. We want to give special thanks to the 614-th Commandment Society for the financial support that made printing the Signature Book possible.
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Irena Sendler
courtesy of Irena Sendler Project
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Mieczysław Abramowicz
Prof. Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
Miriam Akavia
Prof. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
Irit Amiel
Prof. Yakov Amihud
Irena Renata Andersowa
Prof. Jerzy Antczak
Josiane Aubert, MSUI
Mirelle Aubert, MSUI
Prof. Roman Baecker
Jerzy Bahr
Hanna Bakuła
Jadwiga Barańska-Antczak
Eli Barbur
Prof. Władysław Bartoszewski
Prof. Marek Belka
Prof. David J. Bergman
Prof. Michael Berenbaum
Anna Bikont
Halina Birenbaum
Prof. Włodzimierz Bolecki
Rev. Adam Boniecki
Marek Borowski
Andrzej Braun
Piotr Bratkowski
Stefan Bratkowski
Prof. Michał Bristiger
Prof. Maria Krzysztof Byrski
Andrzej Celiński
Aaron Ciechanover, Nobel laureate
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Prof. Peter Constantin
Wojciech Cugowski
Izabela Cywińska
Piotr M.A. Cywiński
Ryszard Czarnecki, MEP
Krzysztof Czyżewski
Prof. Edward Dabrowa
Maciej Dejczer
Piotr Dejmek
Marta Deskur
Bartosz Dominiak
Janusz Drzewucki
Waldemar Dubaniowski
Jan Dworak
Bp Adam Dyczkowski
Stasys Eidrigevicius
Janina Fetlińska, MPP
Władysław Frasyniuk
Andrzej Friszke
Janusz Gajos
Zehava Galon, MK
Yahaly Gat
Grzegorz Gauden
Konstanty Gebert
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Batia Gilad
Rabin Herschel Gluck
Prof. Michał Głowiński
Ignacy Gogolewski
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Agnieszka Graff
Stefania Grodzieński
Remigiusz Grzela
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Jerzy Halberstadt
Jolanta Hartwig-Sosnowska
Marek Halter
Prof. Refael Hassin
Józefa Hennelowa
Joanna Hofman
Eva Hoffman
Prof. Roald Hoffmann, Nobel laureate
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Paweł Huelle
Jan Jagielski
Krystyna Janda
Stanisław Janke
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Prof. Jerzy Jarzębski
Tomasz Jastrun
Andrzej Jonas
Ewa Juńczyk-Ziomecka
Andrzej Kacorzyk
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Ryszard Kaczorowski, President RP
Prof. Marek Karliner
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Prof. Leszek Kołakowski
Tadeusz Kopeć, MPP
Prof. Emil Knebel
Krzystof Knittel
Krzysztof Krauze
Prof. Zygmunt Krauze
Valdis Girts Kristovskis MEP
Ryszard Krynicki
Jan Kułakowski, MEP
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Ewa Lipska
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Prof. Jack Lohman
Monika Luft
Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP
Ks. Andrzej Luter
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Filip Łobodziński
Marcel Łoziński
Paweł Łoziński
Włodzimierz Łyczywek, MPP
Janusz Makuch
Prof. Jerzy Marchwiński
Agnieszka Miszewska
Tadeusz Mosz
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Maria Nałęcz
Prof. Tomasz Nałęcz
Michał Nekanda-Trepka
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Orit Noked, posłanka IL
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Zbigniew Nosowski
Mirosława Nykiel, MPP
Janina Ochojska
Janusz Onyszkiewicz, MEP
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Jacek Pałasiński
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Rabbi Sacha Pecaric
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Andrzej Person, MPP
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Jolanta Pieńkowska
Marek Pijarowski
Prof. Ksawery Piwocki
Maciej Płażyński
Ewa Podles
Marek Pol
Jan Polkowski
Prof. Antony Polonsky
Jerzy Pomianowski
Paweł Potoroczyn
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Wojciech Pszoniak
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Adam Szejnfeld, MPP
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Adam Szostkiewicz
Szymon Szurmiej
Konrad Szymański, MEP
Wisława Szymborska, Nobel laureate
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Abp Józef Życiński
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