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 ...

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She was dubbed the ‘angel of Warsaw’ by one newspaper. With her death this May, Irena Sendler’s legend took flight. A sheaf of obituaries paid tribute to the Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish ...

ORANGE -- Rabbi Alvin Wainhaus of Congregation Or Shalom has a special place in his heart for the story of Irena Sendler, a Catholic social worker in Poland who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ...

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 ...

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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 ...

She smuggled out the children in suitcases, ambulances, coffins, sewer pipes, rucksacks and, on one occasion, even a tool box. Those old enough to ask knew their saviour only by her codename "Jolanta" ...

This TV movie has a few harrowing moments that skillfully bring home the human and emotional cost of World War II, but mostly the telefilm plays like too many other things we've seen before. By Daniel ...

A 97-year-old woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust was honored by parliament Wednesday at a ceremony during which Poland's president said she deserves the Nobel Peace ...

Sendler died at a hospital in the Polish capital on Monday morning, 98 years old, her daughter informs. She worked as a social worker when, in the autumn of 1940 she began an extensive rescue ...