As it says on the back of the pack, this film is the story of a group of Polish Woman who outwitted the Nazi's during World War Two. More to the point, Irena Sendler and some of her social worker friends were gentiles and are now gifted with the title Righteous of All Nations, by Yad Vashem.
Over 2500 Jewish children were saved from death by being taken from the Warsaw Poland ghetto where they and their families awaited deportation and death. They secreted these children mostly in Catholic Convents with the nuns. Everyone involved risked death as punishment for their heroic activity if they were caught. Of course the children were required to learn new Christian names and act as Catholics and it was all very stressful and confusing for them. But they lived.
This is a PBS video but there was a lot of financial help behind it which is noteworthy. The Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union. The Foundation for German Polish collaboration, Rafal Obinski and the Legion of Young Polish Women are just some of the funders. I realize I had never heard of these people or organizations before this film.
Winner of the Best Documentary Audience Award in the UK Jewish Film Festival 2012, I am always glad to know that historians are trying for a balanced view of history, because I've heard a lot of Catholic bashing and Polish bashing in my lifetime. Yes, an estimated 6 million Jewish civilians were exterminated by the Nazi's in Occupied Poland, Occupied Hungary, and so on, but so were millions of Catholic Poles and Christians in several countries.
