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A Nobel Prize for peace - and image By Yossi Melman Last Update: 11/09/2006 12:39 In 1942, in the midst of World War Two, Irena Sendler secretly packed a few Jewish children into an ambulance and smuggled them out of the Warsaw Ghetto. In the front passenger seat, next to the driver, she put a dog, whose loud barking drowned out the crying children. Throughout the war, Sendler worked to save Jewish children - 2,500 in total. In an interview she gave in 1995 to Jewish-French writer and filmmaker Marek Halter, she said she regretted only one thing: "I could...

Irena Sendler - candidate for Peace Nobel Prize 12.09.2006 President Lech Kaczynski, currently on an official visit to Israel, proposed that Poland and Israel should jointly apply for the Peace Nobel Prize for Irena Sendler. During World War 2 Irena Sendler saved over 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto as a member of the resistance organization Zegota.

A Polish woman who saved almost 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust praised a group of US students Monday for spreading the idea of tolerance with their play about her actions during World War II. Five high-school and university students came from Kansas to meet Irena Sendler, 95, whose courage in organizing the rescue of children from the Warsaw Ghetto inspired some of them and their peers to write the 15-minute play, "Life in a Jar" in 2000. The five are the current cast for the play, which has been performed 170 times to an estimated 25,000 people across...

WARSAW, Poland - A Polish woman credited with saving about 2,500 children during the Holocaust was awarded Poland's highest order Monday. Irena Sendler, 93, "risked her own life to rescue the lives of other people during the most brutal of wars," President Aleksander Kwasniewski said in giving her the White Eagle Order. "Thanks to people like you we believe that good can triumph, that a fragile woman is capable of defeating the greatest tyrants," Kwasniewski said at a ceremony in a home for the elderly where Sendler has lived since last year. Sendler was head of the children's section in...