The film tells us the true story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker in the early 1940's. Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto. The children were sometimes sedated and hidden inside boxes, suitcases and coffins as a means of rescuing them from their imminent deportation to death camps. They were given new identities and place with Polish families or secreted inside convents. In 1943 the Nazis discovered Sendler's daring and dangerous ruse and arrested her. She was tortured by Gestapo agents but managed to avoid death. As a result of Sendler's efforts approximately 2500 children were smuggled to safety. Not a single child she rescued was ever betrayed or discovered by the Nazis.

The screening has been organised in collaboration with the Spiro Ark.

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