In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey... to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.
Judi Dench
Self - Narrator (voice)
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is a documentary, history, war film released in 2000 exploring themes of england, refugee, holocaust (shoah), kindertransport, nsdap (nazi party), children in wartime. Directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, it stars Judi Dench. In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey... to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.
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