The High School Kids from Kansas Who Found the Female Schindler | Intellectual Takeout"...Kansas students to achieve acclaim for uncovering a story that the rest of the world missed.
That honor goes to a handful of girls from Uniontown High School who introduced the world to Irena Sendler, the female version of Oskar Schindler, of Schindler’s List fame.
According to a mini-documentary produced by the Kansas State University College of Education, Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse who worked in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.
Through her work in the Polish Resistance, she saved 2,500 Jewish children from the hands of the Nazis.
She was eventually caught, tried, and sentenced to death for her efforts, but managed to escape due to a bribed executioner.
Following the war, she used carefully preserved records to return the children she had rescued to their surviving relatives.
As student Megan Felt explains, Sendler’s name intrigued the girls in her history project group.
Yet despite extensive searching, they were unable to find out much about her, due to Communist suppression of the story after the war.
Perseverance and extensive research finally led them to the discovery that Sendler was still alive and living in Poland..."
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8th grade students from Thomas Edison Charter School North
Uniontown High School
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