Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children in WWII, risking her life with quiet courage—true heroism hidden in humility.

Irena Sendler, 98, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped lead a smuggling operation that rescued thousands of children from Warsaw's Jewish ghetto during World War II, died May 12 at a ...

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.

Some 70 years later, stories from the Holocaust continue to horrify and -- once in a while -- inspire. CBS's "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler," a masterfully produced made-for-TV movie, does ...

A film by Mary Skinner Presented in Association with KQED Public Television/San Francisco Sunday, May 1st, at 10:00 p.m. (check local listings) (San Francisco, CA) May 1, 2011. In honor of National ...

Irena Sendler stood up for what she believed in and defied the Nazis by doing so. One amazing woman in one terrible time, Irena Sendler’s quiet heroism should always be remembered and honored. Cassidy ...

Producers Jeff Rice and Jeff Most have teamed with screenwriter Lawrence Spagnola to bring the Irena Sendler story to the screen. Sendler was a Polish social worker who, during World War II, was ...

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, 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 ...

Producers Jeff Rice and Jeff Most have teamed with screenwriter Lawrence Spagnola to bring the Irena Sendler story to the screen. Sendler was a Polish social worker who, during World War II, was ...