Movie #127............................"Into the Arms of Strangers"

Movie #127 "Into the Arms of Strangers" was a wonderful documentary chockful of information on something about the Holocaust I knew very little about - the Kindertransport --- a month after Kristallnacht the Parliament in London volunteered to take kids from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia for safety and find homes for these kids to wait out the war. What a powerful act of mercy (U.S. couldn't get permission through the Senate to do the same thing --- makes me ashamed of our politicians) and one that had several repercussions for the kids, their parents, and their adopted parents. See this and I think you'd find it as fascinating as I did. It was just a tad long (could have been edited a bit more) but it is nicely narrated by Dame Judi Dench, which helps to move it along --- that and the visuals which were equally fascinating.


Average rating: 3.777
I gave it 4 stars
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
(2000) PG
Filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris's Oscar-winning documentary tells the story of an underground railroad -- the Kindertransport -- that saved the lives of more than 10,000 Jewish children at the dawn of World War II. Through interviews and archival footage, the survivors movingly recount being taken from their families and sent to live with strangers in the relative safety of England. Judi Dench narrates.