Saviour of Warsaw Ghetto dies
May 12 - Irena Sendler, who saved thousands of Jewish children during World War Two by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, dies.
Sendler was 98 years old and died in a Warsaw hospital after suffering a long illness. During the war she used her position as a social worker to enter the Jewish ghetto created by the Nazis and smuggle children out. The children were then placed with Polish families outside the ghetto where half a million Jews were contained.
Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri reports.SOUNDBITES:
"She rescued our hopes that there are still good people. People who against all odds are ready to help others."
"I felt this help like the help of a mother. It's terribly sad that she is no longer here, to ask for her advice and listen to what she has to say.''
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