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 ...

Intervening to protect the safety of vulnerable members of society is one of the core tenets of social work. Nobody epitomises this more than Irena Sendler. As the Nazis began implementing their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WARSAW — The nondescript, industrial neighborhood where Irena Sendler spends her days is blocks from the Warsaw Ghetto where she helped rescue 2,500 children from Adolf Hitler’s wrath during World War ...

Irena Sendler, who died yesterday aged 98, is credited with having saved the lives of some 2,500 Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War. By 1942 the Germans had herded some ...