A postcard in honour of the late Irena Sendler, famed for saving Jews in Poland during WW II, on what would of have been her 100th birthday this month is being issued by the Polish Post Office.

The postcard, designed by Joanna Czerwińska-Jędrych, features a photograph of Irena Sendler, a fragment of the list with names of Jewish children rescued by her in WW2 and the Talmudic quote “who saves one life saves the whole world”.

In 1942, during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Irena Sendler joined an underground operation to smuggle children out of Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto as it was being liquidated. Altogether, she brought out 2 and a half thousand children, who were placed with Polish families, at orphanages and in convents. She recorded the children’s original Jewish identities and kept the lists buried in glass jars, to be recovered after the war.

Irena Sendler died in 2008.

The memorial postcard will also be available via the web site of the Polish Post Office from February 15.  (ek/pg)