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 ...

Rehearsals are in their final stages at the Music Theatre in Poznań, western Poland, for a production focusing on the life of Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved hundreds of Jewish children from ...

The Polish Catholic social worker, who helped save thousands of Jewish children during World War II, died last week. Guy Raz recalls his interview with Sendler in Warsaw, nearly ten years ago. She did ...

Larry Spagnola’s work as a writer, historian and filmmaker has taken him many places: the streets of New York City, the Italian countryside and the halls of Harvard among them. But of all his ...

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 ...

Irena Sendler, credited with saving 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust, was a candidate for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize but lost out to Al Gore. On 12 May 2008, Irena Sendlerowa (commonly known as ...

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 ...

Fate may have led Irena Sendler to the moment almost 70 years ago when she began to risk her life for the children of strangers. But for this humble Polish Catholic social worker, who was barely 30 ...

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 ...