Marcia Gay Harden
Publisher
Entertainment One Films Canada Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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...