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Into the arms of strangers : stories of the Kindertransport / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Sabine Films production ; written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris ; produced by Deborah Oppenheimer.
LIBRA DVD 019 267
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)--Great Britain.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations).
- Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Jews.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jews, German.
- Jewish children.
- Germany.
- History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish refugees--Great Britain.
- Great Britain.
- Jewish children--England--Biography.
- Jews, German--England--Biography.
- Jewish refugees--England--Biography.
- Jews--United States--Biography.
- United States.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- War films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Stories of the Kindertransport
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Pictures : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English and dubbed French soundtracks, with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish.
- Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 2.0
- Dolby digital 5.1
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- The documentary tells the story of a group of children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia who were fortunate enough to escape the unfathomable horror of the genocide perpetrated against the Jewish people during WWII. They were saved by the Kindertransport, which took 10,000 children to the safety of England in the late 1930s. (The United States government, which could have sponsored a similar program, declined to do so.) Assuming that the broad historical context is well enough known, the film concentrates on individual stories, using archival film clips and photographs, re-enactments and interviews, with both the rescuers and the rescued.
- 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.
- Participant:
- Narrated by Judi Dench ; with Kurt Fuchel, Lore Segal, Ursula Rosenfeld, Nicholas Winton, Norbert Wollheim, Bertha Leverton, Lorraine Allard, Alexander Gordon, Jack Hellman, Lory Cahn, Hedy Epstein ... [et al.].
- Credits:
- Edited by Kate Amend ; director of photography, Don Lenzer ; music by Lee Holdridge.
- Notes:
- Release date: 23 November 2000.
- Original presentation aspect ratio, 1.37:1.
- This film was produced with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
- Special features: Cast & crew [text feature]; Producer Deborah Oppenheimer and writer/director Mark Jonathan Harris commentary; Editor Kate Amend, sound designer Gary Rydstrom, archival researcher Corrinne Collett and composer Lee Holdridge commentary; Lord Richard Attenborough interview; Additional interviews; Photo gallery; The kinder [text feature]; The parents [text feature]; The rescuers [text feature]; Awards [text feature]; Premiere footage (10 min.); Historical artifacts (5 min.) [film and slide show feature]; Theatrical trailer (2 min.); DVD-ROM features: links to original theatrical website and chat rooms; downloadable study guide for viewers and educators via the website.
- Academy Award, 2001for Best Documentary, Features (Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer) ; American Cinema Editors, 2001: Best Edited Documentary Film (Kate Amend).
- ISBN:
- 079075309X
- 9780790753096
- OCLC:
- 47800700
- Publisher Number:
- 085391887225
- 7321921188725
- 18872 Warner Home Video
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