I know that most of you knows about Oskar Shindler, the Nazi Czech businessman who save 1100 Jews during the holocaust because of the movie Schindler's List. But do you know about Irena Sendler? She a Polish Catholic credited with saving the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II. She used a network of female social workers to smuggle Jewish children out of Warsaw’s Jewish Ghetto to safety.
Her story was largely unknown until the fall of 1999. For it was then that a rural Kansas teacher showed four high school students a short clip from a March 1994 issue of News and World Report that mentioned Sendler’s name. The students set to work on a year-long National History Day project, researching and looking for primary and secondary sources on Sendler.
In the end, the students wrote the play, “Life in a Jar”, which portrays the life of Sendler. They’ve performed the program more than 250 times in the U.S. and Europe.
Today, CBS is airing Hallmark Hall of Fame’s The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. Check it out.
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