Holocaust: One Who Made a Difference

Poland honors Nobel nominee for Holocaust heroism

Poland declared a 97-year-old woman a national heroine on Wednesday for saving more than 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust during World War Two.

Irena Sendler, who smuggled babies and children out of the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and 1943...

...Poland had the biggest Jewish population in Europe until the 1940s, but the community was almost wiped out during World War Two when 3 million Polish Jews were exterminated as part of Adolf Hitler's "final solution" to the "Jewish problem..."

Elzbieta Ficowska, who was a 6-month-old baby when she was saved by Sendler, said her heroism should be a model for Poles...

"In the face of today's indifference, the example of Irena Sendler is very important," she told a news conference.

We can all do something each day to make a difference.