Intervening to protect the safety of vulnerable members of society is one of the core tenets of social work. Nobody epitomises this more than Irena Sendler. As the Nazis began implementing their ...

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 ...

A class project by four high-school girls from Kansas has spurred a grassroots movement to nominate for a Nobel Peace Prize a woman who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis — a move endorsed ...