Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers (2011) User Reviews

Thank you Poland for sharing your amazing women with the world

[p_marzena · 10/10 · 9 May 2011]

Very inspiriting story of brave hearts of Polish catholic women. Between 1939 and 1945, Irena Sendler, a young Polish Catholic social worker, led a daring conspiracy of young catholic women who saved thousands of Jewish children from certain death. Yet little was known about them until recently. Participants in the Polish Resistance, they were viewed as a threat to the Communists who took over Poland in 1945 and their stories and many others were suppressed for decades. Now American filmmaker Mary Skinner, the daughter of a Warsaw war orphan, brings their remarkable saga to life in Irena Sendler In the Name of Their Mothers. The extraordinary film features 95-year-old Irena Sendler in the last interviews she gave before she died in 1998, together with her co-workers and the Jewish children they saved.

Rating is for the movie production 10 for the brave lady

[bobwarn-938-55867 · 8/10 · 18 October 2019]

Irena Sendler organised the rescue of 2500 Jewish Children from the Warsaw Ghetto in WW2. Arrested and tortured by the Gestapo she survived the war only to be persecuted by the post war Communist regime. Her story was not widely known until after the end of the Cold War. Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, she was passed over in favour of US Vice President, Al Gore.