Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker and hero during World War II who courageously saved approximately 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto between 1940 and 1943. Officially, she was ...

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 ...

In the middle of occupied Warsaw, a woman enters a place every day from which there is almost no turning back. Armed only with an identity card, a false pretext and the determination to save children, ...

Irena Sendler -- credited with saving about 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 ...

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 Monday ...