IRENA SENDLER in the Name of Their Mothers

IRENA SENDLER In the Name of Their Mothers

US Broadcast Premiere

March 2011 On National PBS

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Sunday May 1, 2011 10:00 PM

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...a remarkable testament to one of history's great, unsung heroines...

Irena Sendler: In the Name of private homes. Soon they were workers or her organization, she Their Mothers is the true story of a appealing to Jewish mothers to was sentenced to death.!!She group of young Polish women, part with their children in order escaped on the day she was to be some barely out of their teens, to save them. Before the Nazis executed, thanks to her friends in who outfoxed the Nazis during burned the entire district to the the Resistance who had managed World War II to save the lives of ground, they had managed to to bribe a German guard. With thousands of Jewish children. smuggle out over 2,500 children. a new false identity, she continued For decades, Irena Sendler Over the next two years, they with her work until the end of the kept silent about her wartime would care for the children, war. work. Now, in the last long disguise their identities and move All of the children rescued by interviews she gave before she them constantly, to keep them Sendler’s network survived the died at the age of 98, she reveals from being discovered and war, and many were re-united the truth about a daring killed.!!They joined forces with with their families.! conspiracy of women in occupied the Polish Resistance to get money This one-hour program Poland. to fund and protect foster features Irena Sendler and her Irena Sendler was a 29-year- caretakers and they preserved the liaisons along with several of the old social worker when the Nazis true identities of the children, children they rescued. Their invaded Poland.!!!When Warsaw’s hoping to re-unite them with their stories – evoked through rare Jews were imprisoned inside a Jewish families after the war. archival footage, family ghetto without food and medicine, In October of 1943, Irena photographs and poetic re- she and her friends smuggled in Sendler was captured by the creations shot in Warsaw – are a aid and began smuggling Gestapo, imprisoned and resounding testament to the orphaned children out!–!hiding tortured.!!!When she refused to power of moral courage, even in them in convents, orphanages and divulge anything about her co- the darkest of times.