TY - ADVS AU - Harden,Marcia Gay AU - Harrison,John Kent AU - Kaczmarek,Jan A.P. AU - Mieszkowska,Anna AU - Paquin,Anna AU - Spagnola,Lawrence John AU - Visnjic,Goran ED - Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Inc. TI - The courageous heart of Irena Sendler T2 - Hallmark Hall of Fame PY - 2009///] CY - [United States] PB - Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions KW - Mieszkowska, Anna KW - Sendlerowa, Irena, KW - Social workers KW - Drama KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Poland KW - History KW - Occupation, 1939-1945 KW - Warsaw (Poland) KW - Biographical television programs KW - Made-for-TV movies KW - Television adaptations KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Based on the book "The mother of the Holocaust children" by Anna Mieszkowska; Originally produced in 2009; Special features include making of, conversation, the production, cast & credits, biographies; Director of photography, Jerzy Zielinski ; editor, Henk Van Eeghen ; music, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek; Anna Paquin, Goran Visnjic, Marcia Gay Harden, Rebecca Windheim, Sergei Marchenko N2 - As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi guards, bringing them out in ambulances, suitcases and even wheelbarrows ER -