New Jersey Jewish Film Festival - Irena's Vow

Louise Archambault
2023
120 minutes
English with English subtitles

19-year-old Irena Gut is a Polish nursing student conscripted to work as a Nazi officer’s housekeeper. She decides to shelter 12 Jewish people in the safest place she knows: the cellar of the Nazi officer’s villa. This thrilling drama tells a true story of heroism in the face of certain death.

POST-SCREENING ZOOM Q&A with Jeannie Smith, daughter of Irena Gut Opdyke