Irena Sendler, 98, a Polish Catholic social worker whose ingenuity and daring saved 2,500 Jewish children from extermination in the Holocaust, a feat that went largely unrecognized for 60 years, died ...

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WARSAW, Poland – Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who organized the rescue of some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis and was later honored by Israel's Yad Vashem memorial, has died. Sendler's ...

“Another Holocaust story?” might be an understandable reaction to “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler,” but that would do a disservice to this fine Hallmark Hall of Fame production. It’s hard to ...

Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker whose ingenuity and daring saved 2,500 Jewish children from extermination in the Holocaust, a feat that went largely unrecognized for 60 years, died ...

Irena Sendler is not a name heard often by most people; but her actions and courage deserve to be heard by many across the universe, for what she did was remarkable. Irena Sendler worked as a ...

WARSAW, Poland — Irena Sendler — credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets — died Monday, her family ...

This Nobel Peace Prize nominee was largely unknown to the world until a group of teenagers in Kansas discovered her inspiring, heartbreaking life story. Irena Sendler said, "There are two kinds of ...

14:32, Fri, Sep 16, 2016 Updated: 15:01, Fri, Sep 16, 2016 SHE was only 4 ft 11 in tall, a wisp of a Catholic girl in her early 30s, a fair-haired blueeyed beauty, and an unlikely heroine of the ...

She died at a Warsaw hospital after she had been in hospital for a month with pneumonia. Mrs Sendler was serving as a social worker with the city's welfare department during World War II when she ...