I could walk onto Spaights Plaza right now and start spewing about how the world is going to end because of all of our cars. Is that going to get me a Nobel Prize?

With all events in today’s world, there is a side of the story that often goes untold. With a large liberal media bias, some of the unsung heroes can get passed by when one of their own gets more recognition than they should. This is one such case: I would like to tell you a story.

Irena Sendler was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910 in what was then the Russian Empire. During her lifetime she served as a Roman Catholic social worker. During World War II she was an activist of the Polish underground movement and the Polish anti-Holocaust resistance. This is where her story gets really interesting.

Sendler, from her position in the city of Warsaw’s Social Welfare Department, was able to help many people during the hardships of World War II. But her heroics come in when she turned her attention to helping the Jewish children of her city.

Helping Jews in Poland during the German occupation was punishable by death, the most severe of punishments established by the Nazi regime. But she took on this risk anyway. In December of 1942 the Social Welfare Department created a special task force designed to specifically aid Jews and named Sendler as head of the children’s department. Sendler wore a Star of David on her coat, not only to blend in while working in the ghettos, but also as a gesture of showing her support for the Jews.

She organized a program that essentially smuggled children out of ghettos of German-occupied Warsaw. The children were placed in Catholic Polish homes, Warsaw orphanage or Catholic convents. They were also given completely new identities so that they could escape persecution from the Nazis.

In total, Sendler relocated over 2,500 Jewish children during World War II. In order to keep track of who became who, Sendler made lists of all the names of the children she had helped and buried them in glass jars in her neighbor’s backyard.

In 1943, under suspicion of helping Jews escape from Poland, Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo. Here she was severely tortured and eventually sentenced to death.

She escaped this fate when her Polish employer bribed one of the guards who were to take her to her execution. Officially, the Nazis proclaimed that she had been executed. Her secrets stayed safe until well after the end of the war and the Jewish children of Poland were able to be reunited with their families.

You may wonder why all of this matters now.

Well, Irena Sendler was one of the nominees for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, an award whose distinction goes beyond mere words. Instead the Nobel Society decided to bestow its good fortune on the former Vice President (now media-whore) Al Gore and his “work to educate the world about global warming.”

Now here is a man who can talk the talk, but can’t walk the walk. He cries out “save the Earth!” but flies from event to event in his own personal jet. His private home in Tennessee consumes more than 15 times the monthly average for electrical and natural gas usage.

He supposedly won an Academy Award for “his” movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The problem in that is Gore only “starred” in the movie. His name is not even mentioned as a producer of the film.

I have already covered how Mr. Carbon-Footprint raised global awareness of this “impending doom” through his hypocritical, worldwide concerts, LiveEarth; so I won’t start on that rant again.

The Journal Sentinel article on the former vice president said that the Nobel Prize rounds out a tremendous year for Gore. They have said that his award is valid, but have retreated a bit in stating that he “has on occasion exaggerated the threat.”

The Nobel Peace Prize is an award that has been presented to people who have “performed a service to humanity.” While Gore has performed a lot of actions, including blowing a lot of hot air, were Sendler’s actions less beneficial for humanity?

I could walk onto Spaights Plaza right now and start spewing about how the world is going to end because of all of our cars. Is that going to get me a Nobel Prize? Probably not; most likely campus security will simply ask me to leave.

Is that the message that the Nobel Society is sending to Sendler? “Thanks, but we have someone better.” In all reality, who has done the “Nobel-er” deed here?

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