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By TOI Staff - October 12, 2019
Israeli actress Gal Gadot announced on Friday that she and her husband have formed a new production company whose first film she will star in as a Polish woman credited with saving 2,500 Jewish children from the Holocaust.
The historical thriller, ‘Irena Sendler,’ follows the eponymous heroine beginning with her arrest by the Gestapo at the height of World War II. “The drama becomes a race against time to save not only herself but the identities of the hidden thousands who’ll face certain execution,” the Deadline website summarized.
Sendler was a social worker who smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, when Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. The children were placed with Christian families and in convents and given new names to hide their identities. Sendler died in 2008.
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