Day 4 of my series of 31 women I admire is Irena Sendler.
While Al Gore was getting a Nobel Peace Prize for a documentary, Yasser Arafat for lobbing missiles into Israel, and Rigoberta Menchú for her partly fictitious memoirs, Irena Sendler was ignored by the committee. During WWII, she risked her life to save over 2,500 Jewish children from concentration camps and being slaughtered. She died in 2008 at the age of 98.
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