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Life in a Jar

by Jack Mayer
Patrick Lawlor
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During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for sixty years. Unknown, that is, until three high school girls from an economically depressed, rural school district in southeast Kansas stumbled upon a tantalizing reference to Sendler's rescues, which they fashioned into a history project, a play they called Life in a Jar. Their innocent drama was first seen in Kansas, then the Midwest, then New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, and finally Poland, where they elevated Irena Sendler to a national hero, championing her legacy of tolerance and respect for all people. Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project is a Holocaust history and more. It is the inspirational story of Protestant students from Kansas, each called in her own complex way to the history of a Catholic woman who knocked on Jewish doors in the Warsaw ghetto and, in Sendler's own words, "tried to talk the mothers out of their children."
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Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781494597931
  • File size: 416226 KB
  • Release date: October 6, 2015
  • Duration: 14:27:08

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  • ISBN: 9781494597931
  • File size: 417153 KB
  • Release date: October 6, 2015
  • Duration: 14:18:02
  • Number of parts: 14

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Biography & Autobiography History Nonfiction

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English

During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for sixty years. Unknown, that is, until three high school girls from an economically depressed, rural school district in southeast Kansas stumbled upon a tantalizing reference to Sendler's rescues, which they fashioned into a history project, a play they called Life in a Jar. Their innocent drama was first seen in Kansas, then the Midwest, then New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, and finally Poland, where they elevated Irena Sendler to a national hero, championing her legacy of tolerance and respect for all people. Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project is a Holocaust history and more. It is the inspirational story of Protestant students from Kansas, each called in her own complex way to the history of a Catholic woman who knocked on Jewish doors in the Warsaw ghetto and, in Sendler's own words, "tried to talk the mothers out of their children."
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography History Nonfiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Tantor Media, Inc.
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781494597931
    File size: 416226 KB
    Release date: October 6, 2015
    Duration: 14:27:08

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781494597931
    File size: 417153 KB
    Release date: October 6, 2015
    Duration: 14:18:02
    Number of parts: 14

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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