VHS : Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport
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starring: Judi Dench, Alexander Gordon, Lorraine Allard, Lory Cahn, Mariam Cohendirected by: Mark Jonathan Harris
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790753089
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0790753081
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 20765
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Amazon.com:
This Academy Award®-winning documentary (produced with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Museum) chronicles one of the lesser-known stories of the Holocaust: that of the kindertransport, which saved the lives of 10,000 Jewish children. In the late 1930s, England agreed to accept these children seeking refuge from Nazi oppression. They were placed in foster homes and hostels. Narrated by Dame Judi Dench and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris (who received an Oscar® for his 1997 Holocaust documentary The Long Way Home), this devastating and deeply moving film bears witness to the kindness of these 'simply wonderful people' and to the resilience of the kinder, now elderly, who recall in haunting stories the unimaginable grief of being suddenly torn from their parents, the trauma of not knowing whether they would ever see them again, and the difficulties some faced in their new homes. Recalls one, 'None of the foster parents with whom I stayed could stand me for very long. But all of them had the grace to take in a Jewish child.' But despite having their youth uprooted, many possess an indomitable spirit. One woman speaks of devoting her adult life to human rights and social justice causes. 'I can't pay back or thank some of the people who helped me,' she states, 'But I can do something for other people.' --Donald Liebenson
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Rating: - Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport
great video - sobering story - i am a Judi Dench fan and this is added to my collection - great voice! But all the more important to remember history as to NOT repeat it.
Rating: - An All Time Favorite!
While I've seen many documentary films, this is an all time favorite. The stories are so touching it's hard to watch this film with a dry-eye. What this documentary does best is take the watcher back in time, to a small part of Holocaust history, and tells us the stories stories of a few families that did their best to survive this tragic period. It's also a good reminder of how we all can help, the scene in US Congress denying entry to this children is shameful, and exemplified at the end of the ... Read More
Rating: - Suffer the little children
This is a moving and poignant real story about the rescue of ten thousand Jewish children from Nazi Germany in 1938 and 1939. Various charitable organisations worked out a scheme to send the children to foster homes and hostels and, at first, the Nazi's were only too willing to get rid of the children. The story is narrated by Dame Judi Dench and shows interviews with some of the now elderly escapees, who relate, in heart rending stories, the supreme sacrifices made by their parents, knowing that ... Read More
Rating: - A powerful documentary
This documentary, telling one of the lesser-known stories of WWII and the Shoah, is incredibly powerful, engrossing, emotional, poignant, and above all a shining testament to the inate goodness most people have. The strangers in England who took these children (a number of them actually teenagers and not really "children") into their hearts and homes were by and large doing a kindness simply because it was the right thing to do. Almost all of the Kinder came from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, ... Read More
Rating: - "Strangers" that have become "Friends"
I have watched this incredible documentary so many times that the "strangers" have become "friends".I have met a man who missed the "Kindertransport"by one day and have heard his amazing escape from Austria eventually as recorded through the Shoah Foundation.He verifies everything in this film as totally accurate.I would recommend the films ALL MY LOVED ONES and KORZCAK as excellent companions to INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS.All of these films do great justice to the subject of the children who had to be ... Read More
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