Jack Mayer ‘Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project’ at 6pm on Friday, Aug 10
Everyone’s Books is very pleased to present Jack Mayer, author of ‘Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project‘ on Friday, August 10 at 6pm.
The extraordinary true story of Irena Sendler, a non-Jewish Polish social worker who with others, convinced hundreds of parents in the Warsaw Ghetto to give them their children during World War II. Not only had she previously made false papers for Jews, she kept records of the children she was given, their parents, and what families the children were adopted into – stuffing the records into jars and burying them in the ground. Eventually uncovered and tortured by the Nazis, she never spoke of her work in the Underground. After the war her story (along with so many others), was buried by the government.
But for a chance reading of a small article in news magazine by a history teacher, three girls from a high school in Kansas would never have discovered Irena Sendler’s story, nor written a play about her life that has been performed around the world. Their journey continued in a trip to Poland, to lay flowers on her grave, only to discover Irena well and truly alive.
Come here more of this wonderful and powerful story on Friday, August 10, at 6pm. This event is, as always, free and open to the public.
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August 12th, 2012 at 5:56 pm
Irena’s actions far ottusrip anyones ability to acknowledge or reward.Her humanistic goal was to save lives at terrible personal risk. Her example should ring down through history as a guiding light for others.Al Gore’s mission is to protect the planet heroes like Irena and the common people she stood up for inhabit. The derission of uninformed or intelecually lazy nay sayers is the main risk that he takes.The main point is that they both chose the place to make their stand and in neither case was that decision guided by personal gain or expidiency.One curious observation that I feel compelled to point out is that by definition Adolf Hitler was an extreme right wing proponent. So as such it follows that people who chose to blindly identify them selves as such would possibly be far more likely to hinder Irena’s efforts than to help them.Try thinking for a change.