"How did one woman save 2500 children?"
Irena Sendler 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 from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
Anna Paquin
Irena Sendler
Goran Višnjić
Stefan Zgrzembski
Michelle Dockery
Ewa Rozenfeld
Danuta Stenka
Hannah Rozenfeld
Maja Ostaszewska
Jadwiga
Krzysztof Pieczyński
Dr. Janusz Korczak
Jerzy Nowak
Old Rabbi
Rebecca Windheim
Karolina Rozenfeld
Sergei Novik-Marchenko
Jasio
Irena Sendler 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 from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
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