Rene Lichtman, with glasses, with his rescuer Madame Lepage, right after the war, 1945. Other child unknown.
We constantly place updated photographs of Irena on our web site.
Mel is a child survivor in Warsaw for the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors Conference and journeyed with a television crew to the town of Otwock. He was searching for the orphanage he was taken to. Mel and his wife are from Toronto, Canada.
Children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors took part in the 23rd World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors Conference in Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 2011
Irena worked for the social welfare department in Warsaw during World War II. Her position of leadership in this department allowed her to enter the Ghetto.
A photo of Irena Sendler. This photo was taken in 2007.
Art piece created by a student of 2014 Lowell Milken Center Fellow Brad LeDuc. Brad teaches art at Washburn Rural High School in Topeka, KS.
The Bene Merito award from the Polish government to Renata Zajdman in August of 2011
Irena receiving the Order of the White Eagle from the President of Poland.
Mel is surprised by a photo from his childhood, taken from Israeli archives for this event.
Renata and her son attended the 23rd World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors Conference in Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 2011—you can see her national award pin from the Government of Poland.
Irena holding newspaper article.
This is the photo of the original letter sent to Irena from Pope John Paul II.
Elzbieta Ficowska and Irena exchange a hug after the November ceremony.
Here is one of a number of pages from an article on Irena Sendler and the Life in a Jar project. The magazine featured is called Guidepost of China.
This is the second part of the primary document which details the funeral mass of Irena’s father in 1917.
Saved by Irena and her network, Renata Zajdman, close friend of the Life in a Jar students, poses in 2002. The location is in Warsaw.
This primary document was discovered by Norm Conard and Margaret Marczewski in a Catholic Church in Otwock, Poland. He passed on in February of 1917 of typhus. The second part of the document is in this collection.
Students in the Irena Sendler Project interview a Polish historian with much information on Irena.
Irena receiving the Order of the White Eagle from the President of Poland.
On the second Life in a Jar trip to Poland, the students did a video interview with Janka.
This 2002 photo is of Irena’s co-workers during the war. They were not in her network, but worked with her in social services. They were interviewed by the girls from the project. There are some of the over 100 primary interviews about Irena Sendler. This photos and others from the 2002 trip were taken by Margaret Marczewski, Cornell grad who lives in Warsaw and helps with translation.
A photo taken in 1902, you can see Irena’s parents, Janina Grzybowska (17) and Stanislaw Krzyzanowski (24) as the betrothed couple.
Teacher, Norm Conard and translator Margaret Marczewski at one of the primary interviews. Margaret’s grandmother was a child survivor.
Pitor Zettinger was saved from the Warsaw Ghetto by Irena, he now lives in Sweden.
Wldayslaw Bartoszewski was a member of Zegota and took part in rescuing Jews. He was interviewed by the Life in a Jar students in 2002. This is one of the hundreds of primary interviews done by the Irena Sendler Project students. He spoke so highly of Irena.
Norm Conard visits Irena’s gravesite in August of 2011. Directions to the ‘hard to find’ gravesite will soon be listed at another location on this website.
