Polish Woman Irena Sendler Saved 2,500 Jewish Children During World War II

PZMiller — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:40:45 -0400

The story titled “Irena’s Children” by Gavriel Horan has been going around on the internet about 97-year-old Irena Sendler (she later died in Warsaw, Poland, on May 12, 2008, at the age of 98 from pneumonia).

From 1972 to 1978, as editor of Friday Forum – the monthly supplement of the Jewish Exponent, I published Holocaust survivors’ stories and stories of some of their rescuers. read more »

ARMY WIVES Episode 6 of Season 2: Derogatory Reference to Gypsies

PZMiller — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:40:06 -0400

In episode 6 of Season 2 of Lifetime Television’s ARMY WIVES there was something that bothered me very much: Betty, the owner of the Hump Bar, uses the word “gypped” to mean “cheated.”

It amazes me that the writing staff of ARMY WIVES did not realize that this is a derogatory word based on the word Gypsy. The use of this word as a verb is very offensive to Gypsies. read more »

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Polish Woman Irena Sendler Saved 2,500 Jewish Children During World War II

ARMY WIVES Episode 6 of Season 2: Derogatory Reference to Gypsies