Norm will be speaking at the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust, the 23rd International Conference in Warsaw, Poland this week. On Sunday he will present on a panel dealing with Teaching the Holocaust in the classroom. He also will be sharing the stories of unsung heroes and the powerful Life in a Jar/the Irena Sendler Project.

A highlight of the week in Warsaw will be an afternoon tour on August 18th to the town of Otwock. Otwock was the town where Irena Sendler grew up and it has an orphanage where she hid children during the Holocaust. Norm will be visiting the town and orphanage with Renata Zajdman, Elzbieta Ficowska (both saved by Irena) and Dr. Mel Goldberg, who is a child survivor. We believe this is the first visit back for Dr. Goldberg. Powerful!!

The latest issue of Visions magazine has a great story on Irena Sendler and the kids from Kansas.

Our 2011 Irena Sendler Award winner from the U.S., Lee Holder of North Carolina, recently traveled to Poland and met Anna Kloza, the 2008 Irena Sendler Award winner from Poland. Lee is active in writing lesson plans on the Holocaust.

The Life in a Jar family spent Sunday afternoon at the home of our wonderful friends, Bruce and Gayle Krigel of Kansas City. The Krigels host the students and families each year and everyone has a beautiful time. Good friends, Howard and Ro Jacobson, John and Jenny Isenberg, Merilyn Berenbom and others were present to experience a time of relaxation and the sharing of projects, including the latest on the Irena Sendler project. The names listed above have been with the project for a decade.