The Woman Who Walked Toward the Storm

In 1943, a young Polish nurse named Irena Sendler could have stayed safe. She had papers. She had connections. She could have kept her head down in occupied Warsaw and waited for the war to end. Instead, she walked into the Jewish ghetto carrying a carpenter's toolbox and an ambulance driver's coat, smuggling children out one by one — in burlap sacks, in coffins, under stretchers.…