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 ...

On Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, April 19 in Israel, we had an excellent and relevant talk by Yoel Sheridan at AACI on the life of Irena Sendler, a righteous gentile, who saved the lives of ca.

WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – A Kansas teacher who with his students brought the story of Holocaust hero Irena Sendler to light was honored in Poland. Norman Conard was presented with the 2018 Irena Sendler ...

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 ...

During World War II, Irena Sendler saved more people than Oskar Schindler, smuggling some 2,500 Jewish children from Warsaw’s ghetto to safety. Each time, she escaped certain death, as the price for ...

The Taube Foundation, which works to preserve Jewish heritage in Poland, has decided to grant two Polish citizens the Irena Sendler Memorial Award for the Righteous Among the Nations in recognition of ...

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 ...

Saviour of Jewish children; Born February 15, 1910; Died May 12, 2008. Irena Sendler, who has died aged 98, was credited with saving some 2500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them ...

When Germany invaded Warsaw in 1939, Irena Sendler was just a 29-year-old Polish social worker. By the end of the war, she had saved untold thousands of Jews. Even a death sentence and imprisonment ...

Irena Sendler, who has died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98, was one of the heroes of the Nazi occupation of Poland. As a member of Zegota, the Council for Providing Aid to the Jews, an ...