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INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS: STORIES OF THE KINDERTRANSPORT recounts events of 1938 and 1939, as Jews were being rounded up, deported, or murdered in German-occupied Europe. A dangerous, concerted, and ultimately successful effort was made by British and Quaker leaders to rescue as many Jewish children as possible and get them to safety in the United Kingdom.
Parents need to know that Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, an Academy Award-winning documentary film, gives a human face to a small number of surviving victims of the Nazi Holocaust.While more than 1,500,000 European Jewish children were killed during Germany's ascendance, 10,000 were saved in 1938 and 1939 by a fierce humanitarian effort to get them to safety ...
22 de nov. de 2000 · Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) Faces which carry history. That's what you will take away with you after watching a highly-charged two hours about the ...
Summary. The life-affirming tale of 10,000 children saved from Hitler's grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in Great Britain at the outbreak of World War II. Includes archival footage and decades-later rememberances of both the rescuers and the rescued.
28 de ago. de 2001 · Amazon.com: Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport [DVD] : Judi Dench, Alexander Gordon, Lory Cahn, Kurt Fuchel, Eva Hayman, Ursula Rosenfeld, Lorraine Allard, Jack Hellman, Lore Segal, Robert Sugar, Hedy Epstein, Norbert Wollheim, Mark Jonathan Harris, Mark Jonathan Harris: Movies & TV
Summaries. The secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. For nine months prior to World War II, in an act of mercy unequalled anywhere else before the war, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission, opening its doors to over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia.
Winner of the 2001 Oscar for Best Documentary, Into The Arms Of Strangers attempts to expose and understand one of the forgotten travesties of WWII. While the evacuation of British children during the Second World War has become the stuff of legend, the rescue of 10,000 Jewish children from Germany is less well known.
