History: Irena Sendler, supposedly a candidate for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, ... During WWII, Iliana, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto.

WARSAW, Poland — Irena Sendler, credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died Monday, her family said. She was 98.

Irena Sendler — a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities — has died at age 98.

Irena Sendler, a Polish social ... Records show Sendler's team of some 20 people saved almost 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between October 1940 and April 1943, when the Nazis burned the ...

Irena Sendler, credited with saving 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 98. Mrs ...

WARSAW, May 12 (Reuters) - Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, died in the Polish capital on ...

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Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker whose ingenuity and daring saved 2,500 Jewish children from extermination in the Holocaust, a feat that went largely unrecognized for 60 years, died ...

WARSAW, Poland – Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically important spot ...