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Life in a Jar
The Irena Sendler Project
The Irena Sendler Project
by Jack Mayer
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Based on the True Story of Irena Sendler,
a Holocaust Hero, and the Kansas Teens
Who Rescued the Rescuer
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Long Trail Press
Middlebury, Vermont
Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
Second Edition, March 2011
(First Edition published June 2010)
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.
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Text copyright 2011 by Jack Mayer
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Design by Winslow Colwell/WColwell Design
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Published in the United States by Long Trail Press
Middlebury, VT 05753
www.longtrailpress.com
ISBN 978-0-9841113-2-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2010903215
For the Unsung Heroes
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Title Page
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Back Matter
Praise for Life in a Jar
Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project is an extraordinary story of heroism during the Holocaust, and its transformative role in the lives of three high school students in contemporary Kansas. Jack Mayer masterfully weaves these two separate but intimately connected stories into one larger saga that provides us with a unique lens into the Holocaust and its meaning and relevance in todays world. It will inspire all who read it, especially the young.
Professor Francis R. Nicosia
Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont
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Jack Mayer has done a remarkable job in bringing to life the heroic figure of Irena Sendler, whose noble legacy seems to have reached into unlikely places with affecting and unpredictable results. Meticulously researched, this story has been told with grace and passion by Mayer, who brings a wealth ofcompassion to his book.
Jay Parini
author of The Last Station
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This is a story of history rescued. It rekindles our faith in humanity. Every high school student and teacher should read this book. We all should.
Michele Forman
National Teacher of the Year 2001
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This story of courage, hope, and determination was born in the flaming hatred of Nazi-occupied Poland, was buried and lost amongst the rubble and ashes of post-war Warsaw, was uncovered and illuminated by three mid-western teens and finally, was given wings of words by a Vermont pediatrician, so that it might circle the world and touch minds and hearts with the message that you are never too small or too young to redeem mankind.
Steven Koller, MD
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The monument to Irena Sendler was raised neither in Poland nor in Israel, but in the hearts and deeds of young Americans. Jack Mayers inspiring book brings to life the true story of high school students in Uniontown, Kansas and a Polish Holocaust rescuer. The teens conceived the theatrical performance called Life in a Jar . Their message was simple: one who goes against evil and rescues goodness, changes the world.
Jacek Leociak
Polish Academy of Sciences, author of The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City (with Barbara Engelking), and Glances at the Warsaw Ghetto .
Authors Note
Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project is a work of creative non-fiction based on these primary and secondary sources:
- Interviews with Irena Sendler, other rescuers, child survivors, and Polish academics, as well as the educator responsible for this project, Norm Conard, and his remarkable students, Megan (Stewart) Felt, Elizabeth Cambers-Hutton, Sabrina Coons-Murphy, Jessica Shelton-Ripper, and other students involved in Life in a Jar.
- Matka Dzieci Holocaustu: Historia Ireny Sendlerowej , (Muza SA, Warsaw, 2004), a book of Irena Sendlers life by Anna Mieszkowska and Janina Zgrzembska with Irena Sendler.
- Articles written by Irena Sendler.
- References to Irena Sendlers history in scholarly works about the Warsaw ghetto.
- An extensive research bibliography is appended.
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Imagined dialogue is based on research and interviews. In Part II, dealing with wartime Poland, I have given names to several individuals who played a role in this history but were not named. Prof. Pikatowski, Pika: Irena Sendlers secondary school teacher is never named, however the events of Irenas childhood and experiences at the University of Warsaw are all true. Schmuel, the Jewish ghetto policeman: Irena never names the Jewish policeman who helped her. Adam, the Jewish ghetto fighter and brother of Eva Rechtman: To my knowledge, Eva Rechtman did not have a brother who was a ghetto fighter, but Irena did work closely with the Jewish underground. Some German officials names are fictional, though their stories are true. In Parts I and III, some characters are given fictitious names: Mr. Kayhart, social studies teacher at Uniontown High School, and several students.
Map of the Warsaw Ghetto
- Umschlagplatz , train loading area for deportation to Treblinka
- Muranowski Tram Depot
- Mila 18, Underground Headquarters
- Gensia, Jewish Prison
- Krasinski Gardens
- Jewish Cemetery
- Pawiak, Gestapo Prison
- Church of the Annunciation
- CENTOS, Jewish self-help agency
- The Great Synagogue, Tlomackie Square, destroyed on the last day of the Ghetto Uprising, May 16, 1943
- The Courthouse
- Femina Theater
- Footbridge over Chlodna Street connecting Large to Small Ghetto, opened January 26, 1942
- Judenrat Jewish ghetto administration, #26 Grzybowska Street, November 1940 September 1942
- Nozyk Synagogue, survived the war
- Grzybowski Square
- All Saints Church
- Janusz Korczaks Orphanage,#16 Sienna Street and #9 Sliska Street
- Ewa Rechtmans home, Sienna Street
Sometimes our light goes out,
but is blown again into instant flame by
an encounter with another human being.
Each of us owes the deepest thanks
to those who have rekindled this inner light.
Albert Schweitzer
Part One
Kansas, September 1999 February 2000
Chapter 1
A Chip on Her Shoulder
Kansas, 1999
L iz pressed her forehead against the jet window, staring hard at the sun just pricking the oceans black edge. The night had been interminable, a restless vigilance droning with the jet engine hum. The plane banked gently right, the horizon tilted left, a weird sensation. She wished the boundless boredom of the flight would resume, instead of tilting and dropping into something unknowable, something strange, something bold. When this all began, when she read that first tantalizing paragraph about Irena Sendler in U.S. News & World Report eighteen months ago, who but a crazy person could ever have imagined Liz Cambers sitting at this window, on this 747, flying across an ocean, to Europe, to Poland, to Warsaw.
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