The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler Hallmark Hall of Fame DVD - Gold Crown Collector's Edition
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DVD Review: The Heroism of the Pole Irena Sendler Shown With Good Historical Accuracy
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on my long-term studies of the Holocaust, I conclude that this movie depiction of Irena Sendler is close to the actual historical events. WARNING: Some of the scenes in the movie are emotionally intense, and may be upsetting to sensitive viewers.
German propaganda had attempted to convince the Poles that the Jews were being locked up in ghettos in order to protect the Polish population from the typhus borne by Jews. For a long time, Jews had thought of the Germans as a very civilized people, for whom mass extermination of peoples would have been unthinkable. Warsaw's Jews deluded themselves into thinking that Warsaw's nearly 500,000-strong Jewish community was too large to be harmed by the Nazis. Then, for a long time, too many Jews had accepted the Germans' "resettlement" claims at face value.
Irena's Sendler's offer of help was not all that well received. Many Jewish leaders thought that, since Jews had survived persecutions before, they could do so again, and do it without aid from the Poles. Furthermore, many Jewish parents did not want their children raised by Poles, if only out of the fear that they would, through deliberate acts or passive influences, convert to Christianity. Some Jews thought that the risk of their children converting to Christianity was equivalent in outcome to the risk of dying, while other Jews disagreed with this notion. Then of course it was difficult for parents to voluntarily part with children in the hope that they would survive the war.
Successfully placing Jewish children in Polish homes was very difficult because the Jewish children had to be smuggled out of the ghetto. In addition, Jews did not fit into Polish society. Poland's Jews mostly spoke Yiddish and had a weak understanding of Polish, if that. Poles faced the death penalty for the slightest aid to Jews. In spite of all this, Irena Sendler managed to save 2,500 Jewish children before falling into the hands of the Gestapo. She was repeatedly tortured, and then only a well-placed bribe by the Polish Underground, directed at a corrupt German individual, snatched her in the last minute from the jaws of the executioners.
[It is not true, as asserted by one reviewer, that Polish nationalists (Endeks, the followers of Roman Dmowski) opposed helping Jews. In fact, the one-of-a-kind ZEGOTA aid organization, of which Irena Sendler was a member, contained Poles of all political persuasions, including the Endeks. Members of even the more extreme nationalist ONR also were involved in helping Jews, whether or not they personally had changed their prewar anti-Jewish positions.]
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Irena Sendler was one of the most remarkable - and most unlikely - heroes of World War II, saving 2500 Jewish children during the German occupation of Poland. 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. Irena was eventually captured by the Gestapo. Even after months of torture, she maintained her silence. Her heroic efforts were honored by a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.Bestsellers in DVD
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