A Catholic social worker who organizes an underground network to smuggle Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto using forged IDs. She documents each child's placement for postwar reunification, withstands Gestapo interrogation without betraying her helpers, and survives a death sentence to later reunite with her partner.
University friend and key resistance collaborator.
Irena's mother who doubts her dangerous mission.
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