The Kansas HS students found Irena.

During WW11, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organised a network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto.

Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was virtually unknown for 60 years until three high school students in Kansas set about doing a history project about a woman they knew nothing about other than her name was on a list of those who were heros during the war.

The fabulous book which I decided today to reread follows Irena’s story and the girls’ story until they come together in Poland. Many lives are changed in a positive way forever.

Irena kept the names of the children and their parents buried in a jar in case any parents survived the war. 

The extras show Irena three years before she passed in 2008 and a gathering of some of the children she saved plus the students from Kansas who could not believe Irena was still alive.