Irena Sendler, Saved 2,500 Jewish Children

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Irena Sendler was a Catholic social worker who smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto to safety under assumed names. Her amazing story, uncovered by four Kansas students, was adapted into a play and more recently, a CBS TV movie. In observance of the Holocaust Days of Remembrance, findingDulcinea honors the courage of Irena Sendler. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/s/irena-sendler.html