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 ...
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 ...