My Knees Were Jumping - Remembering the Kindertransport

My Knees Were Jumping - Remembering the Kindertransport
by Melissa Hacker

My Knees Were Jumping - Remembering the Kindertransport
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Actor: Eddie Better, Erika Estis, Kurt Fuchel, Kurt Goldberger, Sonnie Better
Director: Melissa Hacker
Cinematographer: Jill Johnson
Cinematographer: John Foster
Cinematographer: Kevin Keating
Editor: Melissa Hacker
Producer: Melissa Hacker
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 76 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group

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DVD Review: Wonderful Account of a Bittersweet History
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a wonderful telling of the bittersweet history of one facet of the Holocaust. Melissa Hacker does an amazing job of weaving her very personal account of being the child of a Kindertransport survivor with the larger story of the project that saved the lives of a few thousand Jewish children from the Nazi deathcamps.

It just so happens that my family was friends with the Hackers in the 1970s and we even took a trip on the Rhine river together. Little did we know at the time the emotional weight that trip must have had on Ruth (Ms. Hacker's mother). But I write this as an ubiased viewer: my husband shed more tears watching this movie than I.

Description of My Knees Were Jumping - Remembering the Kindertransport

Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, MY KNEES WERE JUMPING is the first feature-length documentary to tell the heart-wrenching story of the Kindertransport. A powerful account of this astonishing slice of Holocaust history, it is told with poigna

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