Irena Sendler In the Name of Their Mothers Airs on PBS This Sunday, May 1 at 10 pm

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Between 1939 and 1945, Irena Sendler, a young Polish Catholic social worker, led a daring conspiracy of young 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 were suppressed for decades.

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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.   Premiering on PBS this Sunday, May 1 at 10 pm, 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.

From a medical home in Warsaw, the petite Polish grandmother reveals for the first time how the young social workers and teenagers outwitted the Nazis, smuggled children through sewers and secret passageways, and cared for them in safe homes and convents throughout

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