Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

2000

2h 2m

7.4(34 votes)

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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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Judi Dench

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