Producers Jeff Rice and Jeff Most have teamed with screenwriter Lawrence Spagnola to bring the Irena Sendler story to the screen.
Sendler was a Polish social worker who, during World War II, was part of the Polish underground where she helped save about 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto. She kept track of them, as well as their original and new identities, with names hidden in jars.
Sendler, a Catholic, was arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo, tortured and sentenced to death but was saved on the way to her execution. She then continued her work while in hiding.
Rice, a producer on the upcoming Jessica Simpson movie Blonde Ambition, and Most, a producer on The Crow movie series, secured the life rights from Sendler, who is still alive at age 97, as well as the motion picture rights to her biography, Muza Publishing's "Irena Sendler: The Mother of the Holocaust Children." Most came across Sendler's story more than a year ago when he read an e-mail that was making the rounds.
Sendler was a Polish social worker who, during World War II, was part of the Polish underground where she helped save about 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto. She kept track of them, as well as their original and new identities, with names hidden in jars.
Sendler, a Catholic, was arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo, tortured and sentenced to death but was saved on the way to her execution. She then continued her work while in hiding.
Rice, a producer on the upcoming Jessica Simpson movie Blonde Ambition, and Most, a producer on The Crow movie series, secured the life rights from Sendler, who is still alive at age 97, as well as the motion picture rights to her biography, Muza Publishing's "Irena Sendler: The Mother of the Holocaust Children." Most came across Sendler's story more than a year ago when he read an e-mail that was making the rounds.
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