The 2011 Irena Sendler Award was given on August 18, 2011. The Master of Ceremonies was Bieta Ficowska. The event was held at the Palace of Foreign Ministry.
Marzanna Pogorzelska, 2010 Polish Irena Sendler Award recipient, opens the performance of her students Holocaust production. Marzanna teaches in Kedzierzyn-Kozle at I Liceum school.
Grazyna Ferenc, Kety; Jakub Niewinski, Murowana Goslina; Malgorzata Rusilowicz. Three finalists for the Irena Sendler Award.
Jewish exhibition in the school hall of I Liceum at Kedzierzyn-Kozle–students of 2010 Polish Irena Sendler Award recipient, Marzanna Pogorzelska, show their exhibit work on the Holocaust.
Child survivor Renata Zajdman receives an award from the Government of Poland. The ‘Merit for Good’ award was given at the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw at the annual Irena Sendler Awards.
Our good friend for many years, Michael Schudrich, was an important part of the Irena Sendler Awards and the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors Conference in Warsaw during August.
Renata Zajdman, saved by Irena Sendler and her network at age 14, at the Irena Sendler Awards in Warsaw.
The students of Marzanna Pogorzelska put out candles while reading out the names of Polish concentration camps – one camp- one candle.
The ‘Merit of Good’ from the country of Poland is given to Renata Zajdman by the special assistant to the Foreign Minister in a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry Palace
Norm Conard – Child survivor Elzbieta Ficowska and other survivors at the Irena Sendler Awards.
Arrival for the August 2011 Irena Sendler Awards in Warsaw.
Students from I Liceum school in Kdezierzyn-Kozle, Poland present a remembrance of the Holocaust. Their director is the teacher, Marzanna Pogorzelska, 2010 recipient of the Polish Irena Sendler Award.
The organizer of the Irena Sendler Awards in Warsaw – August 17, 2011, with the recipient of the $5,000 Irena Sendler Award prize. Ms. Ference is a history teacher from Katowice.
This is the end of the grand ceremony, which was attended by many dignitaries.
Many dignitaries attended the reception of the Irena Sendler Awards in Warsaw at the Foreign Ministry Palace
Marzanna Pogorzelska, awarded in 2010 for “Repairing the World”
Students from the I Liceum school in Kozle, Poland learn Jewish dances. These are students of an Irena Sendler Award winner in Poland.
Miroslaw Sielatycko, Secretary of state, Ministry of Education, Poland; Renata Zajdman, Association of the Children of Holocaust, Canada, talking before the ceremony.
Iga Kazimierczyk, Secretary of the Award, Miroslaw Sawicki, member of Chapter, deputy director in Central Examination Board looking at the program.
Piotr Kadlcik, Chairman of Jewish Community of Warsaw reading the program.
The performance of Sejny Chronicles at the Irena Sendler Awards.
The painting by a student at I Liceum school in Southern Poland is of the synagogue in Kozle which was destroyed on Kristalnacht.
The 5th recipient of the Irena Sendler Award was awarded on Thursday, August 18th, in the Palace of the Foreign Ministry. Grazyna Ferenc, was the winner of this years award. She is a history teacher in Katowice and extremely active in Holocaust education. In the background is Iga Kazimierzyk of CEE, who helped organize the ceremony.
Maciej Kozlowski, deputy director, Department for Middle East and Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland; Alicja Pacewicz, member of the Award’s chapter, director of Center for Citizenship Education Foundation; Miroslaw Sielatycki, Secretary of State, Ministry of Education, Poland, at the reception for the Irena Sendler Award.
2010 U.S. recipient of the Irena Sendler Award and 2008 Polish recipient of the Irena Sendler Award attend Centropa 2011 in Eastern Europe
Child survivor, Renata Zajdman comes into the Foreign Ministry Palace for the 2011 Irena Sendler Awards
The ‘Merit of Good’ from the country of Poland is given to Renata Zajdman by the special assistant to the Foreign Minister in a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry Palace
Child survivor Elzbieta Ficowska, a good friend of Life in a Jar, mc’s the awards. Elzbieta has been the driving force behind the awards in Poland.
