The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
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, focuses on Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children to safety during World War II.
Plot
Irena Sendler (née Krzyżanowska) 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 own mother Janina.
More details
| director | John Kent Harrison |
|---|---|
| events | Irena Sendler The Holocaust World War II |
| genre | social |
| keywords | ailing mother arrest catholic city hall epilogue firing squad gestapo help home army married née nobel peace prize religious belief roman catholic social worker than the typhus warsaw ghetto żegota |
| musicBy | Jan A. P. Kaczmarek |
| publisher | Hallmark Hall of Fame |