Taube grantee and seasoned San Francisco filmmaker Mary Skinner has produced a widely acclaimed documentary, Irena Sendler: In the Name of their Mothers, recounting the heroic acts of Irena Sendler, who organized the rescue from the Warsaw Ghetto of 2,500 Jewish children. The documentary was broadcast on National PBS on Holocaust Remembrance Day, after its debut at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. It reached 3.2 million households and was shown 790 times from May 1-June 1, 2011, and is now available on DVD through pbs.org. It won "Best Feature Documentary" at the UK Jewish Film Festival 2010, was an official selection at Cinequest 2011, San Jose, CA; Athens International Film Festival 2011; and the Staten Island Film Festival 2011, and has won the 2012 Gracie Award for Outstanding Documentary. The film has had screenings in the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK, and Poland, where it was a featured film at the Kraków Jewish Culture Festival.
