| Record Number |
19484 |
| ISBN |
9780984111312 (paperback) |
| Location |
940.53 MAY |
| Author |
Mayer, Jack, 1948- (author.). |
| Title |
Life in a jar : the Irena Sendler Project / Jack Mayer. |
| Edition |
Second Edition. |
| Published |
Middlebury, Vermont : Long Trail Press, 2011. |
| ©2011. |
| Collation |
382 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Content types |
still image |
| cartographic image |
| text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| General Note |
"Based on the true story of Irena Sendler, a Holocaust hero, and the Kansas teens who 'rescued the rescuer'." |
| First edition published June 2010. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-382) |
| Contents Note |
Kansas, 1999-2000 -- Warsaw. 1939-1944 -- Kansas & Warsaw, 2000-2008 -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Where are they now? |
| Summary Note |
"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 60 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'.. |
| Subject |
-- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Fiction |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Fiction |
| High school students -- Kansas -- Fiction |
| Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Fiction |
| Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Fiction |
