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This is one of several poignant moments that raise the Hallmark Hall of Fame's The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler far above the typical movie of the week. A true story about a Polish Catholic woman who risked her own life to rescue Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, it airs 9 p.m. Sunday, April 19, on CBS. It's 1941. There are 440,000 Jews confined behind the Warsaw Ghetto's 10-foot walls; hundreds die of starva- tion and disease every day. Sendler (Anna Paquin), an employee of Warsaw's social services department, used that cover to get into the ghetto, each time bringing a little food, an article of clothing, occasionally man- aging to get a child out. She hears what the Nazis have planned and tries to warn her Jewish friends. They fail to grasp the unfath- omable, but Sendler believes in the Nazis' potential for evil and feels guilty because she doesn't do more. "I thought I was doing all I could, but the truth is I'm doing nothing. One child is not enough?' So she sets up a system to smuggle infants and children out of the ghetto and into homes and convents of sym- pathetic Polish Christians. But some of the Jewish parents don't want to part with their children; others refuse to believe their lives are in danger; and there are some afraid their children will be con- verted out of the faith. Ultimately, with the cooperation of Zagota, the children's division of the Polish Underground, Irena is able to smuggle out 2,500 children — none of whom was betrayed. She kept the names of each of the children on slips of paper in jars she buried in a hiding place. Irena was arrested after a member of her underground gave her up while being tortured. But though both her legs were broken, Irena never revealed anything. She was due to be executed, but guards were bribed and she escaped. She continued to work with Zagota until the end of the war. In the mid-1960s, organizations such as the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous recognized her work and began providing her with financial assistance. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 and died last year at the age of 98. The cast — including Goran Visnjic as a Jewish friend Irena met in college and falls in love with, and Marcia Gay Harden as her mother — is uniformly excellent. The film itself works on many levels: as a tearjerker (it's hard to keep emotions in check when a group of orphans walk off to their deaths hand in hand, singing), as a film about that rare breed of people who are willing to stand up for what is right regardless of the danger and as a reminder of how dangerous it can be to blindly label a people. Curt Schleier Schleier is editor in chief of tvsoundoff.com and filmsoundoff.com . The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler airs 9 p.m. Sunday, April 19, on CBS.