Largely unknown to history, Irena Sendler has been called the “female Oskar Schindler” for her incredibly brave work during World War II that results in literally thousands of saved lives. Sendler, whose father was a doctor and showed her from the beginning the sacredness of human life, and the nobility of protecting those lives, used her position as a social worker in Nazi-occupied Poland to save about 2,500 children’s lives by smuggling them out of the country to safety. Most extraordinarily of all, she kept incredibly […]