In 1999, Kansas students produced a play based on research into Irena Sendler's life story titled Life in a Jar. It has since been adapted to television as The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. Actress Anna Paquin plays the role of Irena.
Sendler's story was largely unknown to the world until the students developed The Irena Sendler Project, producing their performance Life in a Jar. This student-produced drama has now been performed over 285 times all across the United States, in Canada and in Poland. Sendler's message of love and respect has grown through the performances, over 1,500 media stories, a student-developed website with 30,000,000 hits, a national teaching award in Poland and the United States, and an educational foundation, the Lowell Milken Education Center, to make Sendler’s story known to the world.
Life in a Jar continues to travel around the country sharing Irena's story.
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