Released Date:
1997-09-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (524 Reviews)
Director:
Mark Jonathan HarrisAfter WWII, Jewish Holocaust survivors are moved into Displaced Persons' camps. After delays, more physical hardship, and years of uncertainty, they are permitted to begin new lives in Israel and the U.S.
Released Date:
2000-11-24
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
122 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (1323 Reviews)
Director:
Mark Jonathan HarrisIn 1938 and 1939, about 10,000 children, most of them Jews, were sent by their parents from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to the safety of England where foster families took most of them in for the duration of the war. Years later, eleven kinder, one child's mother, an English foster mother, a survivor of Auschwitz who didn't go to England, and two of the kindertransport organizers remember: the days before the Nazis, the mid-to-late 1930s as Jews were ostracized, saying farewell to family, traveling to England, meeting their foster families, writing home, fearing the worst, coping, and trying to find families after the war ended. 1,500,000 children dead; 10,000 saved.
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