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Last update - 16:46 13/05/2008 Hallmark to produce TV movie on Holocaust heroine Irena Sendler By The Associated Press Tags: Holocaust, Irena Sendler A TV movie about the life of Holocaust hero Irena Sendler, who died Monday at age 98 in Poland, is being readied for production and will air next season on the CBS network. The Irena Sendler Story is based on an authorized biography of the woman credited with rescuing some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, producer Hallmark Hall of Fame said Monday. Advertisement The film is in pre-production and will be filmed in Poland. Hallmark said it acquired movie rights to the book and struck a deal with Sendler and her family in 2007. Sendler, a social worker in Poland when Nazi Germany invaded in 1939, devised risky rescue operations to save Jewish children, some of whom were smuggled out in baskets. She died on Monday at a Warsaw hospital, daughter Janina Zgrzembska told The Associated Press. John Kent Harrison, who became familiar with Sendler's bravery while in Poland three years ago filming a CBS miniseries about Pope John Paul II, wrote the script for the Sendler film and will direct. The movie is drawn from the 2005 book Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Irena Sendler Story, written by Anna Mieszkowska. Related articles: Irena Sendler, who saved 2,500 Jews from Holocaust, dies at 98 Changing the world that made the Holocaust IDF chief at Auschwitz: We take calls for Israel's destruction seriously Bookmark to del.icio.us   Jet error Israeli warplanes come close to shooting down Tony Blair's plane. Rehab (live) Report: Singer Amy Winehouse is to undergo drug rehab in Israel.   1.   11, 921 Chinese are dead 12:01  |  Chris Linthwaite 13/05/08   2.   To #1....Sounds like youre losing sleep over this...poor guy with 14:45  |  spade 13/05/08   3.   To Obersturmbannführer Linthwaite 14:59  |  spade 13/05/08   4.   I can`t wait to watch the Hallmark TV movie on 17:31  |  Joseph . E 13/05/08   5.   She was catholic, boys! 17:11  |  Manolo peaceful man 22/05/08   6.   manolo 5 22:52  |  potobac 24/05/08

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