Videos and stories remembering Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler has often been referred to as "the female Oskar Schindler" for her daring and ingenuity in saving the lives of more than 2,500 Jews (most of them children) in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Unlike Oskar Schindler, whose story was the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1993 film Shindlers List. Sendler was a relatively unknown figure to the world at large until 1999, when four Kansas high school students wrote and performed "Life in a Jar," a play about Irena's life-saving efforts in the Warsaw Ghetto. On 12 May 2008, Irena Sendler passed away of pneumonia at the age of 98 in Warsaw, Poland. More