Irena sendler wikipedia

2009 multi-national TV series or program

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 biographyDie Mutter der Holocaust-Kinder: Irena Sendler und die geretteten Kinder aus dem Warschauer Ghetto,^[1] focuses on Irena Sendler, a Polishsocial worker who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children to safety during World War II.

The Hallmark Hall of Fame production was filmed on location in Riga, Latvia. It was broadcast on CBS channels in North America on April 19, 2009, and released to DVD in Hallmark Gold Crown stores in June of that year.

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 fro