Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler worked to save from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II was among the 400 people attending the premier of a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie about Sendler। Renata Zajdman, one of about 2,500 Jewish children Sendler helped rescue in Poland in the 1940s, saw the film, "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler," last week at its world premier in Fort Scott।

The movie, which was scheduled to air Sunday night, is based on Sendler's life। Sendler, a social worker in Poland during World War II, led an effort to smuggle more than 2,500 of Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. The children were given new identities and placed with Polish families and in convents.

In 1999, Sendler's story also led to the creation of the "Life in a Jar" project by a group of students from nearby Uniontown (Kan।) High School. The project is a stage play designed by the students telling Sendler's story. The play has been performed in the United States and around the world. "But this is unusual, let's face it," Conard said. "It's to the credit of the great story of Irena Sendler, it's to the credit of these young people."

Hallmark Hall of Fame

I am looking forward to seeing Anna Paquin on Hallmark Hall of Fame tonight at 9pm on CBS। “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler” is based upon the true story a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940s who is credited with saving the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II। Check the local listings for your area। This is on the CBS network, not the Hallmark Channel.

Anna Paquin stars in “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler,” airing at 8 CT tonight on KCTV-5 as the 236th presentation of the “Hallmark Hall of Fame।” It’s a straightforward and earnest account, adapted from the book by Anna Mieszkowska, of an unfailingly moral and caring person who spirited hundreds, then thousands of children across Nazi checkpoints into the waiting arms of Catholic families.

It is easy to take the Hallmark Hall of Fame franchise for granted. After all, this is the 236th presentation. But few TV franchises have presented such consistently fine and socially-conscious movies over the the years. The Courageous Heart is no exception in its harrowing and sensitive look at a young Polish social worker (Paquin) who defied the Nazi authorities to smuggle Jewish children out of thr Warsaw ghetto during World War II.