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 ...

Irena Sendler, 98; Saved Children in WWII. May 13, 2008. By Adam Bernstein. Irena Sendler, 98, ... an estimated 400,000 Jews were forced into the ghetto, the size of 16 city blocks.

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. WWII savior of young Jews - Los Angeles Times ...

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 ...

WARSAW, Poland -- Irena Sendler -- credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets -- died Monday, her ...

Irena Sendler, a social worker ... Heroic Irena Sendler, who helped save 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis. ... an underground organization helping Jews, for which she worked at the time, ...

During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, ... "Irena Sendler, Lifeline to Young Jews, Is Dead at 98." The New York Times.

WARSAW — 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 ...

In 1965, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial awarded Sendler one of its first medals given to people who saved Jews, the so-called "Righteous Among the Nations." ...