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Poland names walkway after woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from Holocaust

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Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, right, Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz,center, and Janina Zgrzembska,left, the daughter of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust, unveil a sign for a walkway named after Sendler, in Warsaw, Poland on wednesday May 15, 2013. The walkway is in a symbolically important spot: in the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, between a monument to the Jews who fought in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, a new museum devoted to the 1,000 years of Jewish life in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

Students from schools that have the name of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust, unveil a sign for a walkway named after Sendler, in Warsaw, Poland on Wednesday May 15, 2013. The walkway is in a symbolically important spot: in the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, between a monument to the Jews who fought in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, a new museum devoted to the 1,000 years of Jewish life in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (The Associated Press)

Polish officials have honored Irena Sendler, a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust, by naming a walkway in a symbolically important spot after her.

Sendler was a social worker who smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, when Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. The children were placed with Christian families and in convents and given new names. Sendler died in 2008.

President Bronislaw Komorowski and Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz presided over the naming ceremony Wednesday. Sendler's daughter Janina Zgrzembska was also present.

The walkway is in the former Warsaw ghetto between a monument to the Jews who fought in the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising and the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews.