The courageous heart of Irena Sendler [DVD] / Hallmark Hall of Fame ; director, John Kent Harrison ; writers, John Kent Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola.
Widescreen edition. [Typographic symbols and accents removed for systems compatibility.]. Based on the book "The mother of the Holocaust children" by Anna Mieszkowska. Originally produced in 2009. Special features include making of, conversation, the production, cast & credits, biographies. Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Marcia Gay Harden, Rebecca Windheim, Sergei Marchenko.
Summary:
"The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazis for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto."-- Provided by publisher. 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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