Into the Arms of Strangers Stories of the Kindertransport

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-10-19
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury USA
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Summary

The companion to the Academy Award(r) winning feature documentary from Warner Bros. For nine months before the outbreak of World War II, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission. It opened its doors to over 10,000 endangered children-90 per cent of them Jewish-from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. These children were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. Most of the children never saw their families again. Into the Arms of Strangersrecounts the remarkable story of this rescue operation, known as the Kindertransport. It contains stories in their own words from the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents. The stories are heartbreaking, but they are also inspiring. These are the stories of those who survived with the help of others; they are stories about the strength and resolve of children; and most astonishing, these are stories not yet heard about the Holocaust.

Author Biography

Mark Jonathan Harris is a two-time Academy Award(r) winner, most recently for the 1997 Best Feature-Length Documentary, The Long Way Home. He is a professor and former chair of the Production Department of the USC School of Cinema/Television, a journalist, and the author of five award-winning children's novels.

Deborah Oppenheimer is the president of Mohawk Productions, a production company at Warner Bros. She is the executive producer of the television programs, The Drew Carey Show and Norm. Her mother was a Kindertransport survivor.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Lord Richard Attenborough
Introduction 1(20)
David Cesarani
When the Bough Breaks
21(36)
The 9th of November
57(20)
A Light in the Darkness
77(22)
Last Goodbyes
99(20)
Into the Arms of Strangers
119(34)
A Thousand Kisses
153(14)
On the Shoulders of Children
167(14)
War and Deportation
181(18)
Somewhere to Belong
199(20)
None to Comfort Them
219(22)
Living with the Past
241(20)
In memory of Sylva Avramovici Oppenheimer, 1928-1993 261(12)
Postscript 273(4)
The Witnesses 277(6)
Additional Reading 283(4)
Acknowledgments 287(4)
Picture credits 291

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