They’re making a television movie about Irene Sendler, the woman who saved twice as many Jews as Schindler.

As a social worker in Poland, Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto, and although she was tortured for three months – with Gestapo officers crushing her legs in a vice and smashing her bones with hammers – she refused to divulge their whereabouts. Having buried their names in jars, after the war Sendler used the information to help the children track down surviving relatives.

She was relatively unknown until three kids from Kansas researched her as part of a history project in 1999.  Not to diss Schindler in any way, but why, until then, was he a chapter heading and she a footnote?

Anyway, Anna Paquin is going to play Sendler in the movie.  I hope it’s historically accurate, though part of me is secretly hoping to see her go full-tilt Rogue on some Nazis.