Imprint:[United States] : Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, 2009.
Description:1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Note:Based on the book "The mother of the Holocaust children" by Anna Mieszkowska.
Note:Originally broadcast on television in 2009.
Performers:Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Marcia Gay Harden.
Note: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.
Note:DVD, widescreen presentation, 5.1 Dolby surround; region 1.
LanguageClose captioned.
