Via Times of Israel and AP |
The Times of Israel: "The presidents of Israel and Poland have sent birthday greetings to a 101-year-old Polish woman who is believed to be the be oldest living person recognized by Yad Vashem for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. Reuven Rivlin of Israel and Andrzej Duda of Poland praised Anna Kozminska in separate letters for her courage in risking her own life to help Jews during the German occupation of Poland."
The letters were delivered to Mrs Kozminska on her birthday by Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, and the niece of a boy she her and her step-mother, Maria Kozminska, saved during the war. Both women took in 8-year-old Abraham Jablonski in 1942 and sheltered him for three years. They also helped rescue three other Jews.