On May 3, 2008, at their last meeting in Poland, she told the students: "You have changed Poland, you have changed the United States, you have changed the world. I love you very, very much."
Nine days later, on May 12, 2008, Irena Sendler died. She was 98.
About 2,500 children had come out of the Warsaw Ghetto because of her. Their real names had waited out the war in jars under an apple tree.
Her father had told her that if a man is drowning, one must help him. She spent her life doing exactly that.
