Life in a Jar

The keys to history’s treasures are often discovered in unexpected places.  One of them turned up in a tiny Kansas town, unlocking a story half a world away.  This week let’s celebrate the 100th anniversary of a woman who saved 2,500 children.  In 1940 the Nazis walled off a neighborhood near Irena Sendler’s home in Warsaw, Poland.  Pressed almost half a million people into an area the size of New York City’s Central Park – with not enough food to keep them alive.  Five thousand were dying each month.  Sendler, a public health service nurse, devised a daring plan to save the children.