Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

However, in November of 1938, a mere nine months before the official start of the war, the British Consulate, signed a bill declaring that Eastern European children under the age of seventeen would be welcomed into England with the condition that a sponsor was willing to board you and pay 50 pounds (approx. 1,000 pounds in today’s value) for a visa, this became known as the Kindertransport. This miraculous sign of mercy saved 10,000 children from the Nazi party by smuggling them in by the 300s into British hostels and homes (ITAOS). This feat is lightly referenced in war era films such as The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when the children are sent to live in the countryside with a distant relative to escape the perils of war. Yet few truly knew what these children faced, until 2000 when Mark Jonathan Harris released Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (IMDb). This documentary focuses on twelve people who were either the kinder, or the foster parents of kinder from various regions in Germany,…