After the war, she dug up the jars and did her best to reunite the children with their families. In 1943 the Nazis were on to her and she had to go into hiding. She took down the children's information if the parents decided to give them up and wrote down what church, orphanage, or family they went to and put it into a jar and buried it under a tree. Irene had an idea of sneaking out the toddlers and babies since they were hearing tales of death camps and she was trying to save the children. A group of them got medical badges to go into the ghetto. And like when she was in school and disagreed with the segregation policy and scratched up her religion section and went and sat in the Jewish section, she decided to go and help the Jews. For example, Irene Sendler lived in occupied Poland in 1940 during a typhus epidemic in the Jewish ghetto. This book contains the incredible stories of women who have lived amazing lives that changed the lives of others.
If you need a little encouragement in your life during these difficult times, the lives of these women will give you hope.” - Says Me Says Mom Read more Roxanne Quimby-cofounder of Burt’s Bees.Sonia Sotomayor-first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.Wilma Rudolph-first woman to win three gold medals.Bessie Coleman-first African-American female pilot.Fannie Lou Hamer-American voting rights activist.
Nellie Sachs-Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize recipient.Aung San Suu Kyi-Burma’s first lady of freedom.Intrepid women heroes are the antithesis of the traditional damsels in distress rather than waiting for the prince, they took salvation into their own hands.Ĭelebrate girl power! Women leaders in history celebrated in this book include: The book offers hope to those undergoing their own Sisyphean struggles. Each chapter will outline the fall and rise of great women heroes who smashed all obstacles, rather than let all obstacles smash them. It embodies the strength of character of the inspiring women profiled. Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. an important book and a read that is nothing if not timely with current politics.” - FangirlNationĪ #1 Bestseller in 21st Century U.S. “An incredible book about the strength of women.
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