Vandals have desecrated the grave of a Polish woman who saved about 2,500 Jewish children from death during World War II, the public TVP television channel announced. The words "Jews out" were sprayed on the Warsaw grave of Irena Sendler, who spirited out Jewish children from the city's Ghetto to Catholic institutions and convents to save them from death, images on television showed. Sendler, a Catholic, organised the smuggling of children out of the Ghetto, in boxes, suitcases and trolleys, under the pretext of conducting inspections of sanitary conditions during a typhoid outbreak. The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel recognised her as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, a special honour awarded to those who did most to help the Jews escape the Nazis. Sendler died in May 2008 at the age of 98.
AFP
