10/21/2010
Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, KS
Life in a Jar will present to Abilene Middle School's eighth-grade literature students at the Eisenhower...
10/21/2010
Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, KS
Life in a jar will present at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum as a part of the general...
11/5/2010
Skokie, Illinois
The world conference of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust will be held...
3/26/2011
Nevada, MO
Life in a Jar will present at Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri on Saturday evening. Contact person...
4/8/2011
TBA
This week-end is being held for a national education conference.
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Protestant kids from rural Kansas, discover a Polish Catholic woman, who saved Jewish children. Irena Sendler and students from Uniontown, Kansas, they both have chosen to repair the world (Tikkun Olam).  This web site shares the legacy and life of Irena Sendler, plus her 'discovery' for the world.

In the fall of 1999, a rural Kansas teacher encouraged four students to work on a year long National History Day project which would among other things; extend the boundaries of the classroom to families in the community, contribute to history learning, teach respect and tolerance, and meet our classroom motto, “He who changes one person, changes the world entire”.

Students from rural Kansas, discover a Catholic woman, who saved Jewish children.  Few had heard of Irena Sendlerowa  in 1999, now after 270 presentations of Life in a Jar, a web site with huge usage and world-wide media attention, Irena is known to the world.  How did this beautiful story develop?  Read on for the answers.

 

IN MEMORIAM

Irena Sendlerowa
1910-2008
Irena Sendler, Savior of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies
For additional information including tributes and contact information, please visit our memorial page.

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The Life in a Jar Play
270 Presentations & Counting

 

NEWS
Madison, Wisconsin - 4/16/2010
Life in a Jar is big hit in Florida - 2/9/2010
Unknown facts about Irena - 12/17/2009
11th year and 'Where are they now?' - 9/25/2009
Texas and Irena's Legacy - 6/27/2009
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FAQs ABOUT IRENA
When and where did Irena pass away? Here are twenty six additional facts about Irena Sendler.
Were many of the children re-united with their parents?
What are the girls who founded the project doing now? How can we contact them?
What ages were the children Irena saved?
Was Irena Jewish?
Click here to read the answers to these questions & more.

 

 

 

 

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