by Karen Wilterding | May 17, 2020 | News
This week is the 12th anniversary of Irena Sendler’s passing. May 3, 2008 was the last time members of the Life in a Jar cast and crew was able to spend time with Irena in Warsaw before she passed away on May 12. As we continue to share her story through the...
by Karen Wilterding | Apr 28, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
80 years ago the world was ablaze with WWII and the beginnings of the Holocaust. Germany was invading more of Europe this month, in May of 1940, the Battle of Britain would begin. Dunkirk was only days ahead. The world was suffering in a tremendous manner, and today...
by Karen Wilterding | Apr 3, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
We are thinking of our special Life in a Jar family from around the world during this time. We hope you all are staying safe and healthy. Irena was a light in the darkness during the Holocaust. We remember Irena Sendler by being points of lights and sewing seeds...
by Karen Wilterding | Feb 11, 2020 | News
February 15, 2020 – Irena Sendler was born 110 years ago February 15th. We remember this incredible woman with great admiration. We were with her about a week before her passing in 2008. She continued to speak about the brave Jewish people of...
by Karen Wilterding | Jan 23, 2020 | News
On January 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler’s second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution (Endlösung) in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish...
