Tulips “Irena Sendler” for the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History”

Maria Zawadzka, 16 November 2016
The gardening wholesale company from Chrzypsko Wielkie handed over bulbs of the “Irena Sendler” tulips to the project “Polish Righteous – Recalling Forgotten History” of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

The company is the only one in Poland having the license to cultivate such varieties of tulips as Nicolaus Copernicus, John Paul II, Maria Kaczyńska and Chopin’s Prelude.

The donator writes in a letter addressed to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews: “Fall is a time when we, gardeners, already think about the spring […]. For that reason we would like to hand you over these bulbs of the tulip Irena Sendler. I hope that they will bloom in the spring and commemorate this noble woman”.

Irena Sendler, Righteous Among the Nations, activist of the underground Council to Aid Jews “Żegota”, working in the Welfare Assistance Department of the Warsaw Administration, saved 2,500 children during the Second World War.

The children she helped rescue were brought out from the Warsaw ghetto onto the so-called Aryan Side. They received false papers and were placed in Polish orders, orphanages and families.

Irena Sendler was awarded with the title of the Righteous Among the Nations in 1965. In 2007 the Righteous was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. She passed away on May 12, 2008 in Warsaw, at the age of 98.