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The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler is a television movie that will debut on the CBS television network as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on April 19, 2009. The film is written and directed by John Kent Harrison and stars Anna Paquin as Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker that smuggled approximately 2,500 children to safety during the Holocaust. The movie is based on the 2005 biography Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story, by Anna Mieszkowska.

Plot
Irena Sendler (Paquin) creates and leads a conspiracy to sumgle children out of Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto. Sendler is discovered by the Nazis and is schedualed to be exicuted, when she is rescued by the underground network, "Zegota".

Cast

 * Anna Paquin as Irena Sendler
 * Marcia Gay Harden as Janina Sendler
 * Nathaniel Parker as Dr. Majkowski
 * Goran Visnjic as Stefan