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Apr 19, 2009 · A TV movie about the Polish social worker who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Starring Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Michelle Dockery and Paul Freeman, directed by John Kent Harrison.
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- John Kent Harrison
- 2009-04-19
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler is a 2009 television film directed by John Kent Harrison. The teleplay by Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola, based on the 2007 biography Die Mutter der Holocaust-Kinder: Irena Sendler und die geretteten Kinder aus dem Warschauer Ghetto , [1] focuses on Irena Sendler , a Polish social worker who smuggled ...
The story if Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish Underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazi's for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto. Stars Anna Paquin and Marcia Gay Harden.
A Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie. The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker & member of the Polish underground who was arrested by the Nazis for savi...
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Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her ...
This week’s film tells the true story of Irena Sendler, a Catholic social worker in Poland who helped save the lives of thousands of Jewish children during World War II. In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Jewish population is forced into the confines of the Warsaw Ghetto.
