Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport
by Mark Jonathan Harris
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Actor: Alexander Gordon, Judi Dench, Lorraine Allard, Lory Cahn, Mariam CohenDirector: Mark Jonathan Harris
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Don Lenzer
Writer: Mark Jonathan Harris
Editor: Kate Amend
Producer: Alicia Dwyer
Producer: Cayce Callaway
Producer: Deborah Oppenheimer
Producer: Lou Fusaro
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport
DVD Review: Thanking N.Chamberlain
Summary: 4 Stars
It is an interesting doco of not much known history of Czechoslovakian Holocaust survivors saved by the British-arranged refugee-train for Jewish kids under seventeen years old.
Not much might be found of no discriminatorily allowing dozens of thousands of European Jews in the USSR by opening borders after Hitler's occupation of Poland.
DVD Review: 10,000 lives saved
Summary: 5 Stars
Dame Judith Dench narrates this amazing documentary inspired by the English Kindertransport program which managed to save the lives of 10,000 German Jews during World War II. Heartrending tales of the Holocaust are often told from the people rescued themselves. This program is well worth watching and indeed owning if you have any connection to these families or events.
Rebecca Kyle, March 2009
DVD Review: how innocent children paid a high price in a world gone mad
Summary: 5 Stars
Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport is one of the most powerful and emotionally moving documentaries I've seen--ever. This documentary is full of archival footage and a plethora of interviews with people who were transported as children from Germany to England shortly before World War II broke out. This film shows the incredible emotional toll on the children even though they were spared from the Nazi concentration camps; but it also has interviews with a few people who were either foster parents or "foster brothers and sisters" of these children; and this really is the hallmark of a particularly well done and well researched documentary.
Unfortunately, when Hitler came to power life he targeted Jewish people as enemies of Germany and he did so again in German occupied countries and territories. Hitler hated Jews and he tried his best to exterminate them as people already know. What people may not know is that 20,000 to 30,000 children were allowed to leave countries like Germany and Austria to go and live with foster parents in England in the nine months before Germany invaded Poland. These children, many of whom were extremely young (5 years to 8 years) had to leave their parents and everything they knew behind and go to England. Their parents tried to calm them with reassurances that they would follow the children and that the family would be reunited; but of course Hitler and his death camps made sure that usually didn't happen. At the same time, when the children were forced to leave their homes and families behind their childhoods effectively ended.
The actual stories we get in the interviews here will move you; and this is not a film for the faint at heart. We get footage of elderly men and women who recall with great pain the forced separation from their families, especially from their parents; and these adults freely admit that it was a very tough time for them when they arrived in England. Most of the children didn't know a word of English and they had to learn it; and if they didn't have foster parents waiting for them they sometimes had to eat in cold buildings with no heat while snow fell through cracks in the roof and came to rest on their food! There is even footage of concentration camp victims.
Of course, there's much more to this documentary. The interviewees elaborate on their own individual experiences. One woman admits she wasn't easy to have as a foster child; and another elderly man begins to cry when at the end of the movie he tells of how he knew he had not one but two families who loved him equally. We also see what happens to these children after war broke out. The Kindertransport stopped and the British government sent many foreigners away to another country although the outcry from the British public eventually reversed that policy. Want to know a whole lot more--watch the film and find out!
The DVD comes with about five extra interviews; and that's very good. There is also an optional commentary with producer Deborah Oppenheimer and writer/director Mark Jonathan Harris. There's a second commentary that includes editor Kate Amend and archival researcher Corrinne Collett.
Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport should appeal to more than just the Jewish population. People who are human rights activists will appreciate this motion picture; and it serves as a reminder that we must never let another Holocaust happen again.
DVD Review: Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport
Summary: 5 Stars
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.DVD Review: An All Time Favorite!
Summary: 5 Stars
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 movie by the plaque showing how many children were killed in the Holocaust.
Description of Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport
The life-affirming tale of 10000 children saved from hitlers grasp and placed with foster parents and hostels in great britain at the outbreak of world war ii. Filled with spellbinding never-before-seen archival footage and the decades-later remembrance of both the rescuers and the rescued. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 03/29/2005 Starring: Narrated By Dame Judi Dench Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Mark Jonathan HarrisThis 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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