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LIAJ News of the Week 5-12-23

May 12, 2008 – Irena Sendler passed away on this day 15 years ago. She has left a powerful and lasting legacy. The life of Irena Sendler was one of great testimony, one of courage and love, and one of respect for all people, regardless of race, religion or creed.

The Life in a Jar group continues to share her story through these many different ways:
– The Holocaust best-selling book, Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
– Classroom outreach and curriculum
– Hundreds of exhibits worldwide, with the largest at the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes in Fort Scott, KS
– The children’s book, Mommy, Who Was Irena Sendler?
– Zoom presentations to book clubs, classrooms and other groups
– Speaking presentations for various organizations
– The Timeline of Irena Sendler’s Life
– www.ireansendler.org

Norman Conard
Director
620.223.1312

Life in a Jar Foundation 
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701
conardnorm@gmail.com

www.irenasendler.org
http://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerproject
https://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerbook
 

LIAJ News of the Week 2/15/23

LIAJ News of the Week 2/15/23

Irena Sendler was born 113 years ago, on 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 the Warsaw Ghetto and the ‘righteous gentiles’ who helped save many.

Norman Conard
Director
620.223.1312

Life in a Jar Foundation
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701
conardnorm@gmail.com

www.irenasendler.org
http://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerproject
https://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerbook

LIAJ News of the week 1-27-23

LIAJ News of the Week 1-27-23

 

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. As we commemorate the end of the Holocaust during World War II and the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we honor the victims and the survivors of the Holocaust. We also continue to be inspired by Irena’s efforts to stand up for those being persecuted around her. Irena Sendler would want us to remember that one person can make a difference and change the world. She believed that good will always triumph. We must be the good in the world around us. We much “Never Forget.”
Norman Conard
Director
Life in a Jar Foundation 
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701
conardnorm@gmail.com
620.223.1312

LIAJ News of the Week 12/5/2022

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We wish a Merry Christmas, a joyous Hanukkah, and a fantastic Festival of Lights to our many friends around the world! May your heart and home be blessed with joy and peace during this season. 
 

Have you considered gifting a loved one with the Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project book or the children’s book Mommy, Who Was Irena Sendler?” this season?
 
As always, we are so thankful for the many friends we have made over the course of the last 23 years!
 
Happy Holidays from Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project.

Norman Conard
Director
620.223.1312

Life in a Jar Foundation 
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701
conardnorm@gmail.com

LIAJ News of the Week 4/15/22

It was 80 years ago, in the spring of 1942, when Irena and her network of 25 helpers began the heroic rescue of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. Risking their own lives, Irena and the other volunteers worked tirelessly and courageously to smuggle the children out of the ghetto to safety. Her goal to “save them from drowning” in the horror and tragedy of imprisonment and possible death was prompted by her father’s dying words to her, “If you see someone drowning, you must jump in to save them, whether you can swim or not.”

May those words prompt us to follow Irena’s example and be shining lights of good in our world, overshadowing any darkness that arises.
 

Norman Conard
Director
620.223.1312



Life in a Jar Foundation 
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701
conardnorm@gmail.com

www.irenasendler.org
http://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerproject
https://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerbook

LIAJ News of the Week 3/22/22

The events in Ukraine look similar to 80 years ago. In 1942 the great deportation of the Warsaw Ghetto began, plus the many rescues by the Sendler network.

We remember the words of Irena Sendler. She once told us the events of WWII would occur again and again in history since evil people would continue to exist. She also encouraged all to continue to stand up for what is right.

If Irena were alive today, I think she would be organizing along the Polish border for the refugees. Organization was one of her great skills, according to descendants of her network.  She also had a great love for children.

The events in the Ghetto in 1942 were horrific in every way. We can’t compare historical events. We can only despise evil actions and continue to Tikkun Olam (repair the world). 

Our friend and Polish recipient of the Irena Sendler Teaching Award, Marzanna Pogorzelska, recently shared the following:
“We have been experiencing a horrible time – the war in the Ukraine reminds us of the times we thought would never come back. Polish society is now one big network of support for our Ukrainian brothers and sisters. In this network, there are thousands of organizations and people, but I think of that one person with her network of support who is missing now and here. I can only imagine her, Irena Sendler, these days – finding safe places for Ukrainian mothers, organizing cars to take them from the border to somebody’s house, collecting food for small babies, making sure the sick ones get necessary medicine, and many, many other things. I also imagine her determination and anger, which she could always change into true care and support in her own, incredible way.”

The Irena Sendler exhibit at the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes draws visitors from all over North America and around the world. Norm, Megan, and the staff at the museum continue to present to hundreds of people.
(There is no charge for visitors.)

Norman Conard
Director
620.223.1312

Life in a Jar Foundation 
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701
conardnorm@gmail.com

www.irenasendler.org
http://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerproject
https://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerbook

LIAJ News of the Week 2/21/22

Irena Sendler was born 112 years ago, on 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 the Warsaw Ghetto and the ‘righteous gentiles’ who helped save many.

Norman Conard
Director
620.223.1312

Life in a Jar Foundation 
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701conardnorm@gmail.com

www.irenasendler.org
http://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerproject
https://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerbook

LIAJ News of the Week 10/20/21

LIAJ News of the Week 10/20/21

On October 20, 1943, the Nazis arrested Irena Sendler and sent her to be interrogated and tortured at a holding cell. Then she was sent to Pawiak Prison. There they tortured her, trying to get her to reveal the names of her associates. She refused and was sentenced to death. However, the underground Zegota bribed a prison guard, and Sendler escaped in February 1944 before she was executed.

Irena remained in hiding for the rest of the war. When the Gestapo realized she had escaped, they made handbills for all of Warsaw but did not capture her.She continued to work in the rescue effort for the rest of the war. The Warsaw Ghetto was destroyed in 1943, but hundreds of children were hiding in the Warsaw area until 1945.**note: The Sendler network also rescued a number of adults from the Warsaw Ghetto.

Irena wrote down the names of her co-conspirators and gave the list to us. We have the list in the museum on a display, it is the only such list in existence.

Few had heard of Irena Sendlerowa in 1999. Now, after 375 presentations of Life in a Jar, a website with huge usage and worldwide media attention, a motion picture, and award-winning book “Life in a Jar, The Irena Sendler Project,” Irena is known to the world.

Norman Conard
Director
620.223.1312

Life in a Jar Foundation
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701
conardnorm@gmail.com

www.irenasendler.org
http://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerproject
https://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerbook

LIAJ News of the Week 9/23/21

LIAJ News of the Week 9/23/21

 

It has been 22 years since Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project started. 

Students at a small rural Kansas High School began a project for the National History Day program on September 23, 1999.

After 22 years, the story continues to have a powerful effect on the world.

Almost daily we have a request to share the story in person, Zoom, or at the Lowell Milken Center.

The acting troupe has performed over 375 times around the world, although Covid has shut down performances the past two years.

Norman Conard
Director
620.223.1312

Life in a Jar Foundation 
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701
conardnorm@gmail.com

www.irenasendler.org
http://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerproject
https://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerbook

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LIAJ News of the Week 9/1/21

LIAJ News of the Week 9/1/21

Between 1939 and 1942, Irena, along with friends and colleagues, made over 3,000 false documents to help hundreds of Jewish families escape the ghetto, saving many lives.

She then joined the underground Polish organization, Zegota, in December 1942 and ran its children’s division. Using her Social Welfare Department permit, Irena, disguised as a nurse, entered the Warsaw Ghetto under the guise of checking for signs of typhus, which the Nazis feared would spread beyond the ghetto walls. Wearing a Star of David to show her solidarity, Irena began talking Jewish parents into giving up their children, who faced near-sure fates of dying in the ghetto or death camps. The parents had a devastatingly heartbreaking choice to make, and Irena, risking her own life, could afford them no assurances—only a chance their children otherwise would not have. 

Norman Conard
Director
620.223.1312

Life in a Jar Foundation 
The Irena Sendler Project
1 South Main
Fort Scott, KS 66701
conardnorm@gmail.com

www.irenasendler.org
http://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerproject
https://www.facebook.com/irenasendlerbook

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