- 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.
- Other Title
- Mother of the Holocaust children.
- Series
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame (DVD videodiscs) ; 68.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [United States] : Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, [2009]
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw (Poland)
- Other Authors/Editors
- Harrison, John Kent, director, screenwriter.
Spagnola, Lawrence John, screenwriter.
Paquin, Anna, actor.
Visnjic, Goran, 1972- actor.
Harden, Marcia Gay, actor.
Kaczmarek, Jan A. P., composer.
Mieszkowska, Anna.
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Inc.
- Notes
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Based on the book "The mother of the Holocaust children" by Anna Mieszkowska.
Produced in 2009.
Director of photography, Jerzy Zielinski ; editor, Henk Van Eeghen ; music, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Marcia Gay Harden, Rebecca Windheim, Sergei Marchenko.
DVD, NTSC; widescreen presentation, 5.1 Dolby surround; region 1.
