I ceased to be a child when I boarded the train in Prague. It’s strange that it’s only six years out of a long life and those six years will affect the rest of your life. – Eva Hayman
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is the 2001 Academy Award®-winning Warner Bros. documentary feature film about the remarkable British rescue operation, known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of nearly 10,000 children from Nazi-occupied Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig by transporting them via train, boat, and plane to Great Britain. These children were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. T
Written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, produced by Deborah Oppenheimer, narrated by Judi Dench, and made with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it utilizes rare and extensive footage, photographs, and artifacts, and is told in the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents. The film was inspired by Oppenheimer’s late mother’s experience.