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Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker who helped rescue Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland. Beginning in December 1942, she led the children's section of Żegota, the Council to Aid Jews, under the cover name "Jolanta." Sendler and her associates helped children leave the ghetto, arranged false identities and found places for them in private homes and institutions. She preserved records of their original names in jars buried for safekeeping.

The Gestapo arrested Sendler in October 1943 and imprisoned her at Pawiak. Żegota secured her release through a bribe, and she spent the rest of the war in hiding. Sendler later said the rescue network saved 2,500 children, but historians have challenged that total, with modern estimates placing the number helped by her and her close associates in the hundreds. Yad Vashem recognized her as Righteous Among the Nations in 1965. She died in Warsaw on May 12, 2008. The photographs show Sendler in a 1942 black-and-white portrait and in a color close-up late in her life.

[LittleNightmare]

she was a cute little old lady.

[Nite]

that story is well worthy of a major movie,thanks for the post

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Originally Posted by abyssmirror ↗

that story is well worthy of a major movie,thanks for the post

from wikipedia :

Documentary Film

American filmmaker Mary Skinner began working on a historical documentary film based on Irena Sendler's memoir as told to Anna Mieszkowska in 2003. "Irena Sendler, In the Name of Their Mothers" features the last long interviews Irena Sendler gave before she died. Also featured are three of Sendler's co-workers and several of the Jewish children they saved. Filmed mostly in Poland with Polish cinematographers Andrzej Wolf and Slawomir Grunberg, the film uses evocative location footage of Irena Sendler's wartime apartment, Zegota headquarters, the Warsaw sewers, Gestapo headquarters and the Pawiak Prison along with rare footage of the city during the German occupation to vividly re-create the events of Sendler's life. This is the first historical documentary made outside Poland to record the true story of Irena Sendler and the daring "conspiracy of women" who worked with her to rescue and protect the tragically endangered children of the Warsaw ghetto. Skinner recorded over 70 hours of interview material for the film and spent over four years consulting archives, historical experts and eyewitnesses in the US and Poland to uncover many unknown details about their operation. The film is planned for worldwide release in 2010.

http://www.irenasendlerfilm.com/

Life in a Jar
In 2006, Kansas students produced a play based on research into Irena Sendler's life story entitled Life in a Jar. It has since been adapted to television as The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010278/

[Faline]

That would definitely be a worthy watch