Order of White Eagle for Irena Sendler

Photo, Rzeczpospolita Online,

10 November 2003

President Aleksander Kwasniewski awards Irena Sendler, 93, with Poland's highest distinction, the Order of White Eagle for valor and great courage. "We are very proud to have among us Irena Sendler who during WWII saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. Thanks to people like her we believe that good can triumph, that a fragile woman is capable of defeating the greatest tyrants" - Kwasniewski said at a ceremony in Warsaw, Poland.