Irena Jar Of Secrets Analysis

IRENA’S JARS OF SECRETS Irena’s Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan tells the true story of a Polish social worker, Irena Sendler. She was raised to value the importance of helping others who needed assistance, and she saw a need in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As a social worker, she was allowed access into the ghetto, and she was able to come up with clever ways to smuggle children out before they were sent to a death camp. She hid children under stretchers and floorboards in an ambulance, carried babies in baskets, and smuggled children through the sewers. She was eventually caught and sentenced to death, but she managed to escape and continue helping to save children. She managed to keep all of their names and new identities safely buried in a jar under an old apple tree. She had saved over 2,500 children and kept their identities a secret by the end of the war. In 2007, she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. This led to some of the children she had saved recognizing her face and contacting her about how she saved their lives. Furthermore, she spent the last years of her life in a nursing home under the care of a woman who had been smuggled out of the ghetto as a baby. …show more content…
It tells the story of the testimony of people who worked with Doctor Spanner during a trial where they examine several atrocities that were committed under the charge of this man. They tell of how they used dead bodies of Nazi victims: separating flesh from bone to produce skeletons for universities as well as making soap from the fat of deceased humans. Assistants were to follow the instructions from a “manual” provided by the doctor for creating the products. This text is far more explicit in discussing how people were harmed by the Holocaust or for simply being different than Irena’s Jars of Secrets or “The Sneetches” and is not age-appropriate for children who are first learning about the