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If being a saint is complete devotion to a cause, bravery and altruism, then I think Mrs Sendlerowa fulfils all the conditions.I think about her the way you think about someone you owe your life to.
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.
We all have to ask ourselves, "What would I have done?". I agree with Wladyslaw Bartofszewski, one of the organizers of ZEGOTA, who said, "Only the dead have done enough.
You see a man drowning, you must try to save him even if you cannot swim.
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
I was taught by my father that when someone is drowning you don't ask if they can swim, you just jump in and help.
Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
To save one Jewish child, ten Poles and two Jews had to risk death. To betray that same child and the family that hid him required only one informer or, worse still, one blackmailer. The risk of being caught by the SS was not prison, but death- death for the entire family.
