10th anniversary of Polish WWII humanitarian social worker Irena Sendler's death

This month of May represents the 10th anniversary of the death of Irena Sendler, a Polish Socialist humanitarian worker credited with having saved the lives of some 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.

Elzbieta Ficowska is one of the Jewish children saved by Irena Sendler in Poland during WWII. © Filip Warwick

It comes as Israel -  a country born out of the horrors of the holocaust in which some six million Jewish people were killed - marks its 70th anniversary.

RFI’s Filip Warwick spoke with Elzbieta Ficowska, one of the Jewish children saved by Irena Sendler.