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Sendler
Sendler is a surname, variant of Sandler. Notable people with the surname include: * Irena Sendler (1910–2008), Polish social worker, humanitarian and Holocaust rescuer * Egon Sendler (born 1923), German-French art historian See also {{surname Yiddish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irena Sendler
Irena Stanisława Sendler (), also referred to as Irena Sendlerowa in Poland, ''nom de guerre'' Jolanta (15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008), was a Polish humanitarian, social worker, and nurse who served in the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw. From October 1943 she was head of the children's section of ''Żegota'', the Polish Council to Aid Jews ( pl, link=no, Rada Pomocy Żydom). In the 1930s, Sendler conducted her social work as one of the activists connected to the Free Polish University. From 1935 to October 1943, she worked for the Department of Social Welfare and Public Health of the City of Warsaw. During the war she pursued conspiratorial activities, such as rescuing Jews, primarily as part of the network of workers and volunteers from that department, mostly women. Sendler participated, with dozens of others, in smuggling Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then providing them with false identity documents a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Sendler
Egon Sendler (1 August 1923 – 17 March 2014) was a Catholic priest of the Jesuit order and one of the world's foremost experts on the painting of Eastern Orthodox icons. He was also an author, teacher, theologian, and artist. He earned considerable respect from many Orthodox experts on icons. Biography Sendler was born in Waldtal/Małkowice, Silesia, in 1923. After the Second World War and three years of war captivity in Russia, he joined the Jesuits in Germany in 1948. He was educated in Munich, Rome in the Russicum and Paris, where he studied Byzantine art history. He was fluent in French, Russian, German, Italian, and Polish. From 1959 he lived and taught at the Jesuit College Saint-Georges of Meudon, France.Creative Icon biography Retrieved 18 March 2014. After retiring, he lived in |
Righteous Among The Nations
Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ; "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis for altruistic reasons. The term originates with the concept of " righteous gentiles", a term used in rabbinic Judaism to refer to non-Jews, called , who abide by the Seven Laws of Noah. Bestowing When Yad Vashem, the Shoah Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 by the Knesset, one of its tasks was to commemorate the "Righteous Among the Nations". The Righteous were defined as non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Since 1963, a commission headed by a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel has been charged with the duty of awarding the honorary title "Righteous Among the Nations". Guided in its work by certain criteria, the commission metic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandler
Sandler ( yi, סאנדלער, lit=sandalmaker) is a Yiddish family name. A rarer variant is Sendler. Notable people * Adam Sandler (born 1966), American actor and comedian * Barry Sandler (born 1947), American screenwriter and film producer * Boris Sandler (born 1950), Yiddish-language author and journalist *Dale Sandler, American epidemiologist * Ethan Sandler (born 1973), American actor * Herbert Sandler, American banker * Karen Sandler is the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, former executive director of the GNOME Foundation, an attorney, and former general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. *Irving Sandler (born July 22, 1925) is an American art critic, art historian, and educator. * Jackie Sandler (born 1974), American actress and wife of Adam Sandler * Jonathan Sandler (1982–2012), French rabbi assassinated on March 19th, 2012 with his two sons during the 2012 Midi-Pyrénées shootings in Toulouse * Joseph Sandler (born 1953), Washingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
