The grave of a woman who saved thousands of Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto has been desecrated, according to Polish authorities.
The words “Jews out” were sprayed onto the Warsaw gravestone of Irena Sendler, a woman honoured by Holocaust museum Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Police have launched an investigation after the graffiti was discovered in the Warsaw cemetery.
The Catholic social worker rescued 2,500 children from the Nazis during the Holocaust by smuggling them out of the ghetto in bins and suitcases, then placing them in church institutions for the remainder of the war.