The Fearless Story of Virginia Hall — The One-Legged Spy Germany Feared Most

In a back garden on Lekarska Street in Warsaw, near the end of the war, glass jars were buried under an apple tree. Inside were thin strips of paper, rolled tight, each holding a pair of names — the name a person was born with, and the false name keeping them hidden. The woman who kept those lists was a social worker named Irena Sendler. For years the number attached to her was 2,500 children. Then a Polish writer went looking for the evidence behind it, and what she found changed the story — and in a strange way made Sendler more remarkable, not less. This is her full story.