Polish Holocaust hero dies at age of 98.



Irena Sendler —Her family said. She was 98 credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazi Holocaust by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, some of them in baskets — died Monday.

Sendler, among the first to be honored by Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial as a Righteous Among Nations for her wartime heroism, died at a Warsaw hospital, daughter Janina Zgrzembska told The Associated Press.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski expressed "great regret" over Sendler's death, calling her "extremely brave" and "an exceptional person."

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