Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers

95-year-old Irena Sendler tells the true story of a secret network of Polish women who rescued thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto and hid them until the end of the war. In 1943 Sendler was captured by the Gestapo, tortured and sentenced to death, but she refused to divulge anything about the women or the hidden children. She escaped on the day she was to be executed when the Polish Resistance bribed a German guard. All of the 2500 children rescued by her bravery survived the war and many were re-united with their Jewish families. But for decades they could not tell their stori... Číst dále

Režie: Mary Skinner