Irena Sendler, who died yesterday at 98, was a Polish social worker who helped save an estimated 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false ...

In the shadow of an apple tree in a Warsaw garden, thin slips of paper bearing the names of 2,500 Jewish children were buried in glass jars. Each one recorded a life saved by Irena Sendler, a ...

Irena Sendler -- credited with saving about 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 said. She was ...

Irena Sendler (1910–2008) was a Polish Catholic social worker who, as a member of the Polish underground organization Zegota, smuggled some 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto and arranged ...