Life in a Jar
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Narrated by:
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Patrick Lawlor
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By:
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Jack Mayer
About this listen
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. 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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- Tamas Lorincz
- 13-11-2023
The power of ….
This excellently narrated in well-written account is a tribute to the power of history, education, family. Tone this story- Tiger way it reinforces the better in the power of one: one history teacher, one idea, one mission: to resurrect the story of one incredible human who changed history with every single life she saved.
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- June Elizabeth Fynn
- 28-09-2023
Such a wonderful book
This would be one of the best audible I have listened to, I especially liked the writing & how it was read, many times I teared up due to the subject matter & the way it was narrated. Thank you Jack Mayer for telling us this story, such a difficult tale to tell in places. It has increased my level of knowledge of the horrific time in history referred to as the Holocaust.
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