Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport - Softcover

Harris, Mark Jonathan; Oppenheimer, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582341621 ISBN 13: 9781582341620

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2001

Synopsis

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 Strangers recounts 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.

About this title

Review:

Wonderfully moving ... a noble story, beautifully told (Daily Mail)

Book Description:

With a preface by Lord Richard Attenborough, a collection of accounts from some of the 10,000 children rescued from the Nazi Regime and brought to the UK by the Kinderstransport scheme

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1582341621
• ISBN 13: 9781582341620
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2