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Into the Arms of Strangers
Directed by	Mark Jonathan Harris
Produced by	Deborah Oppenheimer
Written by	Harris
Starring	Judi Dench (narrator)
Music by	Lee Holdridge
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	September 7, 2000 (premiere) September 15, 2000 (limited) November 23, 2000 November 23, 2000 November 24, 2000
Running time	122 min.
Language	English

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is a documentary film released in 2000. It was directed by Mark Jonathan Harris and narrated by Judi Dench. It tells the story of the kindertransport, an underground railroad that saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish children. The movie uses archival footage and interviews to recount the stories of children sent to live in England, after fleeing from Nazi Germany.

Interviewed subjects

The documentary relies heavily on filmed interviews in which the children of the kindertransport (now grown men and women in their 60s and 70s) recall their feelings and experiences of the kindertransport. These interview subjects include:[1]

• Lorraine Allard, kind
• Lory Cahn, kind
• Mariam Cohen, foster mother of Kurt Fuchel
• Hedy Epstein, kind
• Kurt Fuchel, kind
• Alexander Gordon, kind
• Franzi Groszmann, mother of Lore Segal
• Eva Hayman, kind
• Jack Hellman, kind
• Bertha Leverton, kind
• Ursula Rosenfeld, kind
• Inge Sadan, kind (Bertha Leverton's sister)
• Lore Segal, kind
• Robert Sugar, kind
• Nicholas Winton, rescuer
• Norbert Woolheim, rescuer

Alexander Gordon was also one of the refugees on HMT Dunera, one of the most notorious events of British maritime history.

Reactions

An overwhelming majority of American film critics responded positively to Into the Arms of Strangers writing that it both intellectually and emotionally captures this chapter of history.[2] The film went on to win the prestigious Academy Award for Documentary Feature.^[1] The film had an extremely limited theatrical release (18 theaters at its widest) and grossed $382,807 domestically.[3]

See also

• List of Holocaust films
• 1930s
• anti-Semitism

References

External links

• Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport at the Internet Movie Database
• Into the Arms of Strangers at Allmovie
• Into the Arms of Strangers official website
• Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport at Rotten Tomatoes.com
• Into the Arms of Strangers (2000) at Box Office Mojo