Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Anna Paquin will star in Irene Sendler story : what's the Irene Sendler Project ?

This is a fascinating project and you will want to know more about it and the life of the amazing woman that Anna will portray.

Protestant kids from rural Kansas, discover a Polish Catholic woman, who saved Jewish children. Irena Sendler and students from Uniontown, Kansas have chosen to repair the world (Tikkun Olam). This web site shares the legacy and life of Irena Sendler, plus her 'discovery' for the world.

In the fall of 1999, a rural Kansas teacher encouraged four students to work on a year long National History Day project which would among other things; extend the boundaries of the classroom to families in the community, contribute to history learning, teach respect and tolerance, and meet our classroom motto, “He who changes one person, changes the world entire”.

Students from rural Kansas, discover a Catholic woman, who saved Jewish children. Few had heard of Irena Sendlerowa in 1999, now after 270 presentations of Life in a Jar, a web site with huge usage and world-wide media attention, Irena is known to the world. How did this beautiful story develop? Read on for the answers.

http://www.irenasendler.org/

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

A play about Irena Sendler opened on Broadway on March 29:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/theater/reviews/30irena.html