Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The courageous heart of Irena Sendler / Hallmark Hall of Fame ; director, John Kent Harrison ; writers, John Kent Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola.

Edition:

Gold crown collector's ed.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, [2009]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Series:

Hallmark Hall of Fame ; 68

Hallmark Hall of Fame (DVD videodiscs) ; 68.

Subjects:

Sendlerowa, Irena, 1910-2008 -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Social workers -- Drama.

Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945 -- Drama.

Warsaw (Poland) -- Drama.

Genre:

Biographical television programs.