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this-is-not-jewish: the-hero-of-ages: gdfalksen: Chiune...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:49:58 +0100

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gdfalksen:

Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.

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Reblogging because more people should know Mr. Sugihara’s name. I learned about him in Sunday School, but he doesn’t get nearly the name recognition Schindler does. Which is a schande, frankly—and I’m certain race has a lot to do with it.

“Whoever destroys a soul, it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” —Sanhedrin 37a

I salute you, sir. Thank you.

guerrillafeminism: During WWII, Irena Sendler, got permission...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:48:22 +0100

guerrillafeminism:

During WWII, Irena Sendler, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive.

Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.

Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi’s broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out, in a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the families.

Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

In MEMORIAL - 65 YEARS LATER

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tsunderegirlfriend: Don’t ever fucking tell me that dreams dont...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:17:34 +0100

tsunderegirlfriend:

Don’t ever fucking tell me that dreams dont come true

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Ed Sheeran singing all of the songs on his album (+) in 3...

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Ed Sheeran singing all of the songs on his album (+) in 3 minutes

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vintagegal: Photography by Nacho Lopez, 1953

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:00:22 +0100

vintagegal:

Photography by Nacho Lopez, 1953

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