The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler

How did one woman save 2500 children?

Directed by John Kent Harrison

Produced by Jeff Most Productions, CBS

A biographical drama about moral courage and compassion during the Holocaust, centered on one woman's determined effort to save children despite institutional and personal resistance.

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.