The Woman Who Walked Into the Ghetto

In 1942, Irena Sendler was a social worker in Warsaw with a permit to enter the Jewish Ghetto to inspect for typhus. She could have completed her rounds and gone home each evening to her warm apartment on the Aryan side of the wall. No one would have blamed her. Those children were not her children. But Irena began smuggling babies out in toolboxes, suitcases, and ambulances.…