Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

"Into the Arms of Strangers", directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, is a loving account of what parents resort to do in order to save their children from a tragedy that was looming over Europe. Having missed this film when it... Full review

Along 1938 and 1939, the United Kingdom welcomed 10,000 Jewish children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia through the Kindertransport program. Most of the other countries, including the United States of America, refused to accept these children. With the beginning of... Full review

During that relatively small window of time, prior to the beginning of Hitler's conquest of Europe, when exportation rather than extermination was still the prudent solution to the "Jewish Problem", a rescue plan called the Kindertransport was begun which provided... Full review

After coming home from a day "out on the town" and then sitting down to watch this program on PBS by accident while channel-surfing was an interesting experience. The documentary so vividly told the stories of the experience of the... Full review

I caught this movie on a local PBS station one night as I was flipping through channels while waiting for some friends. I had to watch the rest after seeing only a little. This is a good documentary--nothing too flashy... Full review

The Testament of holocaust survivors is always worth hearing, lest we forget the depths to which humanity proved it was capable of sinking. In fact, the scale of the tragedy is almost incomprehensible to a privileged modern mind, hence the... Full review

I watched this movie the other night and found it most moving. I think it should be widely shown as very few people know of the Kindertransport. The documentary is well done and tells a wonderful story of survival. It... Full review

This is a film that must be seen by your entire family. True, it's very disturbing, but it's one of the best films ever made about the horrors of war. Beautifully made, touching and moving, this is just a marvel.... Full review

This film continues to haunt me. With such delicacy, honesty, and poignancy, the great tragic horror of the holocaust is brought home to us on a human scale from a child's vantage point. Each unique story is told with such... Full review

A documentary about the Kindertransport, which sent many Jewish children in Central Europe to safety in Britain. The film is constructed from interesting and rare film footage and newsreels, German lullabies and folk songs, still photos,letters and drawings, representative objects,... Full review

the film is never short of gripping or emotionally engaging One of the more ironic ones concerns rescuer Norbert Wollheim who managed to save several thousand children, but lost both his wife and young child at Auschwitz. ... Full Review

INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS: STORIES OF THE KINDERTRANSPORT Rated:PG For movie details, please click here . Most of these young refugees found a safe haven living in foster homes in Britain-the only country willing to open its doors to them-and, not surprisingly, most would never be reunited with their own parents, the majority of whom perished in Nazi death camps. ... Full Review

Saving the Children Before the Holocaust A Review by John Nesbit 12/05/2001 It would be easy for writer/director Mark Jonathan Harris to descend into sentimentality with his Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport , but he rarely... ... Full Article

Made with the Washington Holocaust Museum, this diligently crafted doc chronicles a humanitarian rescue mission during one of the darkest periods in 20th-century history. As a result of the brutal anti-Semitic persecution in central Europe during the late 30s, 10,000... ... Full Article

The legacy of the Holocaust is one of stories. The past decades have been filled with an endless procession of documentary and feature films all geared towards permanently recording the voices of survivors, victims, and witnesses to one of the... ... Full Article