Into the arms of strangers : stories of the Kindertransport / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Sabine Films production ; produced in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ; produced by Deborah Oppenheimer ; written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris.
Publisher:
Warner Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
This disc may not play on all machines or drives. Narrated by Judi Dench. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Study guide listed on Special Features menu is not available on this DVD, nor is it available through link given on menu.
Contents:
Prologue -- Pride and joy -- Life under Hitler -- Invasion of Austria -- Where to flee -- Ninth of November -- Birth of the Kindertransport -- The Kinder -- Preparing to leave -- Last goodbyes -- The journey -- Arrival in England -- Kurt and Mariam -- Hostels and manors -- Dear parents -- On the shoulders of children -- War -- Somewhere to belong -- The Dunera -- Deportation to the camps -- The Coventry blitz -- Work of importance -- Family reunion -- War's end -- Survival is an accident -- Another set of parents -- Living with the past -- Coda and end credits.
Summary:
Academy Award-winning documentary chronicling the mass exodus of Jewish children from pre-World War II Germany into neutral countries, where they were adopted by new families.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.