Life saver

Irena's Vow brings a pro-life message to a blue state | Marvin Olasky

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When CBS on June 7 televises the Tony Awards for the best of Broadway, Tovah Feldshuh, lead actress in Irena's Vow, will not be a nominee. Her absence from the list was a leading omission, according to New York City Theater.

But that this show with a Christian, pro-life heroine is playing on Broadway at all is remarkable. Feldshuh plays Irena Gut Opdyke, a young Polish woman who sees Jews in her town massacred by machine gun and vows that she'll try to save every life she can from then on. Working as a housekeeper to a German commandant, she hides 12 Jews for years in the cellar of his home. You think the playwright shouldn't make up such an obviously incredible story. Astoundingly, it's true, as attested to by those she saved. A memorial to the young woman now stands in Jerusalem next to that of Oskar Schindler of Schindler's List fame.

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