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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
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Mark Jonathan Harris (written by)
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23 November 2000 (Australia)
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In the nine months prior to World War II, 10,000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey...
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The story of the child refugees who were transported to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
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Seven Scores: Lee Holdridge - Holocaust Documentaries (Part 1)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Judi Dench | ... | Narrator |
 | Lory Cahn | ... | Herself |
| Kurt Fuchel | ... | Himself |
| Eva Hayman | ... | Herself |
| Ursula Rosenfeld | ... | Herself |
| Lorraine Allard | ... | Herself |
| Jack Hellman | ... | Himself |
| Lore Segal | ... | Herself |
| Robert Sugar | ... | Himself |
| Hedy Epstein | ... | Herself |
| Norbert Wollheim | ... | Himself |
| Nicholas Winton | ... | Himself |
| Franzi Groszmann | ... | Herself |
| Alexander Gordon | ... | Himself |
| Bertha Leverton | ... | Herself |
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Rated PG for thematic elements.
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122 min
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Follows My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996)
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Woll'n heimgehn
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"Into the Arms of Strangers", directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, is a loving account of what parents resort to do in order to save their children from a tragedy that was looming over Europe. Having missed this film when it was first released, we caught up with it in the DVD format that has been lovingly transferred to that medium.
The story of the "Kindertransport" is recounted by some of the children that participated in it. We watch them as they are today, and through pictures, and sometimes on those old newsreels and films where they are captured as children in Germany, and the countries where the prosecution of Jews took an ugly turn.
Our heart goes to some of these older people that speak with such dignity in spite of what was done to them and their families. It's a tribute to the people who tell us what happened to them in the way they express their experiences without venom, or malice. After all, these persons showcased in the documentary are all survivors, something that thousands other Jewish children didn't have the same fate.
One can only imagine what these individuals went through at such an early life, many without being able to speak English, or made themselves understood in the households that received them. Imagine a child separated from loving parents having to deal with a world gone mad. It speaks volumes the people that tells us their stories turned out to be the way they did!
Dame Judy Dench's narration works well in the context of the material being shown. Mark Jonathan Harris has made a valuable contribution to show the whole world how a mad man changed these children's lives, and their parents' forever.