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* AdultFear: Having to let your child leave the ghetto, which is a risk on its own, and then let them live with strangers. It becomes increasingly clear that the alternative is even worse.
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The film is based on the life of Irena Sendler, who smuggled 2500 Jewish children from the Warshaw Ghetto and saved them. Irena and her fellow social workers pose as nurses and get the children out in various ways. It shows the reluctance of some families to give up the children and the enormous tension people lived under in the ghetto, as life gets steadily worse.

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The film is based on the life of Irena Sendler, who smuggled 2500 Jewish children from the Warshaw Warsaw Ghetto and saved them. Irena and her fellow social workers pose as nurses and get the children out in various ways. It shows the reluctance of some families to give up the children and the enormous tension people lived under in the ghetto, as life gets steadily worse.

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* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: When the deportations start, Irena can't do anything for the orphans being led away. She despairs when talking to her mother about not having been able to do anything.



* VenturousSmuggler: Josia. He does it to help sick, old people.

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* VenturousSmuggler: Josia.Jasio. He does it to help sick, old people.

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* AdultFear: Having to let your child leave the ghetto, which is a risk on its own, and then let them live with strangers. It becomes increasingly clear that the alternative is even worse.



* CodeName: After Irena gets caught and escapes, she lived the rest of the war under a false name.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Irena and Stefania when they were caught.
* UsefulNotes/TheGestapo: Whom they most fear.
* LesCollaborateurs: Downplayed with Michal. Jasio accuses him of this, but he does it to protect his son. He knows what Irena is doing and does not betray her.



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening scene a driver smiles at Irena and then hands some bread to children in the ghetto. He will later help Irena getting children out of the ghetto. Irena is also shown offering bread to two children.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening scene a driver Piotr smiles at Irena and then hands some bread to children in the ghetto. He will later help Irena getting children out of the ghetto. Irena is also shown offering bread to two children.children in the same scene.



* FromBadToWorse: It is difficult to survive in the ghetto, but worse is to come.
* GoodShepherd: Several priests help the people in the ghetto and getting children to safity.



* HiddenInPlainSight: One of the ways they save children is by cooly walking through a court house filled with Germans.
* HideYourOtherness: Children learn catholic prayers to help pass as Poles. Irena and Stephania also braid the hair of a girl with long black hair and make her wear a hat. Irena also tells Josia to wear a hat and to learn how to cross himself.



* TheStoic: Irena stays cool under pressure. Even when she walks with a Jewish child through the court house and a German starts talking to them, she smiles and jokes back.

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* RoadBlock: When Piotr, Stephania, Irena and Jewish boy run into a road block, Irena and the boy slip out of the vehicle through the back.
* TheStoic: Irena stays cool under pressure. Even when she walks with a Jewish child through the court house and a German starts talking to them, she smiles and jokes back.back.
* VenturousSmuggler: Josia. He does it to help sick, old people.

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* TheFamine:

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** Maria immediately makes it clear that she doesn't know why she wouldn't help the Jewish people in the ghetto. She becomes one of Irena's staunchest allies.
* TheFamine: 2612 calories per day for Germans, 699 calories per day for Poles, 300 calories for residants of the ghetto.

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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Irena and Stefan used to be class mates.



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening scene a driver smiles at Irena and then hands some bread to children in the ghetto. He will later help Irena getting children out of the ghetto. Irena is also shown offering bread to two children.
* TheFamine:
* FinalSolution: The ghetto is already horrible, but even many of the people within think it's the final stage of what can be done to them. They're horribly wrong. Also the reason why the Nazis don't care much about the people dying there.
* AFriendInNeed: Eva calls Irena her dearest friend. With reason, as she gives the food and clothes, and also saves Eva's daughter.



* LaResistance: A resistance that focusses on saving people instead of sabotaging, but isn't any less brave because of it.

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* FriendToAllChildren: If ever there was one.
* TheHero: Irena and her friends are true, real-life heroes.
* LaResistance: A resistance that focusses on saving people instead of sabotaging, but isn't any less brave because of it.it.
* TheStoic: Irena stays cool under pressure. Even when she walks with a Jewish child through the court house and a German starts talking to them, she smiles and jokes back.
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''The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler'' is a 2009 movie.

The film is based on the life of Irena Sendler, who smuggled 2500 Jewish children from the Warshaw Ghetto and saved them. Irena and her fellow social workers pose as nurses and get the children out in various ways. It shows the reluctance of some families to give up the children and the enormous tension people lived under in the ghetto, as life gets steadily worse.

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* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: In Irena and her friends. Also, the teacher who stays with his students as they get taken away, knowing very well he would die.
* DuringTheWar: Set in World War II
* FriendlyEnemy: There is a mention of a few Germans warning about the death camps.
* LaResistance: A resistance that focusses on saving people instead of sabotaging, but isn't any less brave because of it.

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