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 ...

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 ...

During World War II, Irena Sendler saved more people than Oskar Schindler, smuggling some 2,500 Jewish children from Warsaw’s ghetto to safety. Each time, she escaped certain death, as the price ...

Irena divorced Sendler and in 1947 married Stefan (by whom she had three children, Janka, Andrzej, who died in infancy, and Adam, who died of heart failure in adulthood).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...