Irena Sendlerová nejznámější citáty
„Slovo hrdinství mne strašně štve. Opak je pravdou. Trápí mne svědomí, že jsem udělala tak málo.“
Irena Sendlerová v jednom ze svých posledních rozhovorů.
Zdroj: http://web.archive.org/web/20080514085758/news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080512/wl_nm/poland_sendler_dc
„Každé dítě zachráněné s mým přispěním jen dává smysl mé vlastní existenci a není důvodem ke slávě.“
Irena Sendlerová v roce 2003 v dopise, kterým reagovala na rozhodnutí polského Parlamentu, který ji prohlásil za polskou národní hrdinku, české znění podle Lucie Syzmanovské
Zdroj: http://www.holocaust.cz/cz2/resources/ros_chodes/2007/04/irena_sendlerova
Irena Sendlerová novináři, který ji žádal o interwiev s tím, že o jejích činech musí slyšet celý svět, české znění podle Lucie Syzmanovské
Zdroj: http://www.holocaust.cz/cz2/resources/ros_chodes/2007/04/irena_sendlerova
Irena Sendlerová: Citáty anglicky
As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4314145.stm
“I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.”
As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005)
Kontext: Let me stress most emphatically that we who were rescuing children are not some kind of heroes. Indeed, that term irritates me greatly. The opposite is true. I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.
“Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.”
Quoted in "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto" by Rupert Cornwell in The Independent (14 May 2008)
“I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then.”
Referring to Nazi doctrines that German "Aryans" were a "master-race" of "supermen", as quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005)
Kontext: I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death.
Quoted in "The Long Path to Irena Sendler - Mother of the Holocaust Children" http://www.socwork.net/2006/1/historicalportraits/wieler, by Joachim Wieler Social Work & Society, vol. 4 (2006)
Letter to the Polish Senate (2007), quoted in "Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/world/europe/13sendler.html?em&ex=1210824000&en=cecafcbe4079750b&ei=5087%0A by Dennis Hevesi in The New York Times (13 May 2008)
Letter to the Polish Senate (2007), quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" http://www.auschwitz.dk/Sendler.htm by Louis Bülow (2007)
