Newsmaker - Sendler, 98, Saved 2,500 From Holocaust
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › May 13, 2008
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WARSAW, Poland - Irena Sendler - credited with saving some 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.
Sendler, among the first to be honored by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial as a Righteous Among Nations for her wartime heroism, died at a Warsaw hospital, daughter Janina Zgrzembska told The Associated Press.See the full content of this document
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Newsmaker - Sendler, 98, Saved 2,500 From Holocaust
President Lech Kaczynski expressed "great regret" over Sendler's death, calling her "extremely brave" and "an exceptional person...
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