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Film Guide Alicia Mcgivern Into the Arms of Strangers Into the Arms of Strangers Film Guide Alicia McGivern freshfilmfestival Into the Arms of Strangers Into the Arms of About the Director The story began with producer Strangers Mark Jonathan Harris worked as a Deborah Oppenheimer’s own mother crime reporter for the Chicago City who had been transported but who had Director Mark Jonathan Harris News Bureau then as an investigative never spoken about her experiences UK-USA/B&W, Colour/122 mins/2000 journalist before he began making in Great Britain and then the United films. He was co-director of The States. When she died in 1993, Crew Redwoods, a short documentary which Oppenheimer went in search of her Original Music Lee Holdridge won the 1967 Academy Award for story. Having seen Harris’ Academy Cinematography Don Lenzer Documentary Short Subject. He then award-winning documentary The Long Editor Kate Amend went on to direct three films which Way Home about Jewish refugees, she Producer Deboraj Oppenheimer he refers to as his ‘Jewish trilogy’: approached him with this project. Director Mark Jonathan Harris The Long Way Home (1997) dealt with She and Harris interviewed the experience of Jewish refugees survivors, read testimonies, diaries and after World War 11 and won the other written documents located in 1998 Oscar for Documentary, despite Holocaust institutions around the world. condemnation by Spike Lee who Realising that they couldn’t tell all of the alleged that the second half of the film 10,000 Kinder (plural of Kind) stories, was propaganda for the state of Israel; they decided to show representative A Dream no More, portrayed Israel accounts. Focussing on the experiences more negatively but was never shown; of twelve survivors, they create the Into the Arms of Strangers (2000) was documentary around these survivors’ the third film in the trilogy and it won memories of leaving their families, living the Academy Award for Documentary in Britain and surviving the war. The film Feature in 2000. Harris also won an was completed in two years and released Emmy for writing Unchained Memories: in US in September 2002. In Germany, Readings from the Slave Narratives. it has been distributed to every school Harris’s approach to casting his in the country as part of its compulsory films is to first interview many people, Holocaust education programme. and then to choose from those whose There have been many films based stories come across well on camera. He on the Holocaust, but in recent times and producer Oppenheimer used this there has been a shift from describing approach for Into the Arms of Strangers and the horrors of camps to telling heartfelt selected twelve subjects from the many stories of survivors or of those who people they interviewed. The director took great risks to rescue people. Such has also written children’s books and he films include Life is Beautiful/La Vita lectures at the University of Southern è Bella, Roman Polanski’s The Pianist California. Recent projects include The and Schindler’s List. Into the Arms of Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing Strangers has no particular heroes but (2004) and a TV documentary, The Oppenheimer and Harris have created Boomer Century (2007). a moving and powerful documentary about this largely unknown subject. Introduction Into the Arms of Strangers – Stories of the The Interviewees Kindertransport is a documentary film The ‘Kinder’ about the transportation of Jewish children Lorraine Allard from Bavaria; from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia transported aged 14. Lived with and Poland to Britain. This took place same foster family until 18 when during the nine months before the Second she joined the Auxiliary Territorial World War (1939-45) as part of a rescue Service to serve during the war. operation known as the Kindertransport Both parents died at Auschwitz, she (Kind = child in German). died aged 76. freshfilmfestival Into the Arms of Strangers Lory Cahn from Breslau; had boarded they emigrated to US. Lives in Jack Hellman from Germany; the train to leave but was pulled off New York and was past president of was sent to boarding school by her father. Deported with her the KTA1. aged nine and the housemother parents to Theresianstadt, then she Alexander Gordon from Germany; wrote to Baron de Rothschild was sent to Auschwitz. Moved to lived in an orphanage from age asking him if he would take in different camps but released from of seven to sixteen. Farmworker twenty-six children, her husband, Bergen-Belsen weighing 56 pounds. – planed to move to Palestine herself and two daughters. Her mother died in Auschwitz but but instead he went on the Jack persuaded de Rotschild to her father survived. Lives in US. Kindertransport, but because of provide a work permit for his father Hedy Epstein from Germany; sent age, he was arrested and interned and they spent two years in Britain to London at 14, lived with two in June 1940. Shipped to Australia before emigrating to US. different families. Returned to on Dunera, interned for a year Died August 2001. Germany after the war to search then returned to Britain to join Bertha Leverton from Germany; for her parents and found out they the Pioneer Corps and served until the oldest of a Polish Jewish had died at Auschwitz. Lives in US. 1947. Lives in US. family. Went on Kindertransport Published a memoir in Germany Eva Hayman from Czechoslovakia; with brother at aged sixteen. about her experiences. left aged fifteen with her younger Was taken in by family to be a Kurt Fuchel from Vienna; lived there sister and spent two years in maid along with her brother till seven and then transported to boarding school before taking up and younger sister. Organised the Norwich where he lived with the nursing. Wrote wartime memorial, 50th and 60th Anniversary Reunion Cohen family until he was sixteen. By the Moon and the Stars telling of the Kindertransport. She compiled Parents escaped to south of France. her story up to 1945, the day she a collection of 250 memoirs of the Family reunited in 1947 and lived learnt her parents had died. Lives in transport entitled, I came alone. together in France until 1956 when New Zealand. Lives in London. 1 Kindertransport Association 1nc freshfilmfestival Into the Arms of Strangers Norbert Wollheim from Germany, began organising Kindertransport in Berlin at aged 25. Escorted several, but returned to Germany each time. Deported to Auschwitz with wife and son. He alone survived his family of 70. Sued German manufacturer IG Farben for forced labour in camp. Settlement established fund of 6.43m to compensate other forced labourers. Died November 1998 aged 85, five weeks after interview for film. Historical Context The Kindertransport took place during the nine months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two. Europe at this time was an unstable place, still suffering the effects of World Ursula Rosenfeld from Germany; County Down. Both parents War One. Germany was particularly father died at Buchenwald. Lived survived the war. He emigrated unsettled, having to abide by the Treaty in orphanage in Hamburg and to New York after the war to join of Versailles. The country’s economy had then transported with her sister. his mother. Has written extensive begun to recover during the 1920s, only Taken in by widow in Brighton, her educational material on Jewish to be hit again by the 1929 Depression. mother did not survive the war. She history, serves on KTA Board. It was in this climate that the Nazi Party remained in England. (National Socialist German Workers’ Inge Sadan from Germany; Parents Party), which Adolf Hitler joined in transported to Coventry aged nine Mariam Cohen, foster mother to Kurt 1919, began to gather a following. In after her elder sister had persuaded Fuchel; has a son John. Husband died their rhetoric they promised to rebuild a foster family to sponsor her. Five 1963. Still lives in Norwich where Germany, blaming ethnic minorities, difficult years with foster family, Kurt visits regularly. particularly the Jews, for the nation’s sister and brother, till parents Franzi Grossman, mother of Lore ills. When Hitler became Chancellor in arrived. Lives in Jerusalem, edited Segal. She and husband joined 1933, he began to dismantle democracy a book of Israeli Kinder memories. Lore in England in 1939, worked as and proclaimed himself ‘Führer’ of an Organised reunion. domestic couple during the war. authoritarian new regime. Lore Segal - Austrian; aged ten Lives in same apartment building as The Jewish population became a during Anschluss and transported daughter and has breakfast with her target for this intolerant government. to Dovercourt Camp where every day. They represented one percent of she wrote letters to relatives. the population in Germany but they Eventually her parents got a Rescuers were German citizens and enjoyed domestic service visa. Came to Nicholas Winton, stockbroker equal rights. Many of them served in Liverpool. Wrote a novel, Other from London. Aged 29 when he the army during WW1. Yet despite People’s Houses about living with visited refugee camps in Prague this, anti-Semitism was prevalent five different British families during full of refugees from the annexed in Germany and in Poland where the war. Lives in New York in same Sudetenland. This prompted him over 3 million Jews lived. Then the building as her mother. to try to save children. Brought government passed a series of laws Robert Sugar from Austria; left aged 664 Czech children over in nine that would restrict Jewish people from eight and sent to Jewish refugee months before war. Awarded MBE, equal participation in society. Limits hostel in Belfast and then to refugee Freedom of City of Prague, Rotary were placed on the number of Jewish farming settlement in Millisle, Service above Self Award.
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