Life in a Jar by Jack Mayer
During World War I, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue 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 suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years. Unknown, that is, until three high school girls from an economically depressed, rural school district in southeast Kansas stumbled upon a tantalizing reference to Sendler's rescues, which they fashioned into a history project, a play they called Life in a Jar. Their innocent drama was first seen in Kansas, then the Midwest, then New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, and finally Poland, where they elevated Irena Sendler to a national hero, championing her legacy of tolerance and respect for all people. Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project is a Holocaust history and more. It is the inspirational story of Protestant students from Kansas, each carrying her own painful burden, each called in her own complex way to the history of a Catholic woman who knocked on Jewish doors in the Warsaw ghetto and, in Sendler's own words, tried to talk the mothers out of their children. Inspired by Irena Sendler, they are living examples of the power of one person to change the world and models for young people everywhere. * * * * * 60% of the sales of this book are donated to the Irena Sendler/Life in a Jar Foundation. The foundation promotes Irena Sendler's legacy and encourages educators and students to emulate the project by focusing on unsung heroes in history to teach respect and understanding among all people, regardless of race, religion, or creed.Jack Mayer is a writer and a pediatrician. In 1976, he started practicing pediatrics in Enosburg Falls, Vermont, a little village on the Canadian border in eastern Franklin County. In that side of the county, he was the first pediatrician. For ten years, he worked as a country doctor, exchanging medical services for eggs, firewood, and knitted afghans. Dr. Mayer studied the molecular biology of juvenile cancer as a National Cancer Institute Fellow at Columbia University School of Public Health in New York City from 1987 to 1991.
During those four years, he wrote the majority of his scholarly papers. He was also an academic pediatrician at the Presbyterian Medical Center of Columbia University. In 1991, Dr. Mayer returned to Vermont and founded Rainbow Pediatrics in Middlebury, Vermont, where he still practices general care children. He's a pediatrics instructor at the University of Vermont School of Medicine and a premedical adviser at Middlebury College.
Dr. Mayer has published short tales, poetry, and essays on his years as a pediatrician and trekking The Long Way in Vermont during his career. In 2003 and 2005, he was a fiction participant at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and in 2008, he was a poetry participant. He is a resident of Middlebury, Vermont.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780984111312 |
| ISBN 10 | 098411131X |
| Title | Life in a Jar |
| Author | Jack Mayer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Long Trail Press |
| Year published | 2011-03-28 |
| Number of pages | 396 |
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