The courageous heart of Irena Sendler [videorecording] = Irena Sendler : un courage inoubliable / Hallmark Hall of Fame presents ; director, John Kent Harrison ; writers, John Kent Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola
Based on the book "The mother of the Holocaust children" by Anna Mieszkowska Originally produced in 2009 by Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions Special features include making of, conversation, the production, cast & credits, biographies Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Marcia Gay Harden, Michelle Dockery, Danuta Stenka, Rebecca Windheim, Sergei Marchenko, Paul Freeman, Leigh Lawson, Nathaniel Parker
Summary:
As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi guards, bringing them out in ambulances, suitcases and even wheelbarrows
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