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The Day We Left Hitler Behind: The Story and Legacy of the Kindertransport

Join The Anne Frank Center USA for a special screening of the 2000 Academy Award-winning documentary Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport. This important film tells the remarkable story of how over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia were rescued from almost certain death by being transported to England. Housed in foster homes and hostels, these children, or kinder, hoped to see their parents again after the war, although, sadly, the majority would not. Narrated by Judi Dench, and made in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the film uses rare footage, photographs, and, most importantly, the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents and foster parents in order to tell this most moving and courageous of stories.

The film will be introduced by Tom Wysmuller, AFC Advisory Board Member and the grand-nephew of Geertruida Wijsmuller-meijer, Dutch war hero and resistance fighter. Geertrudia, or “Auntie Truus,” as she was known, was instrumental in saving more than 10,000 Jewish children in the Kindertransport rescue mission.











When: Tue., May. 19, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect
44 Park Pl.
212-431-7993
Price: $8 adults; $5 students and seniors; Free for Holocaust survivors
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Join The Anne Frank Center USA for a special screening of the 2000 Academy Award-winning documentary Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport. This important film tells the remarkable story of how over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia were rescued from almost certain death by being transported to England. Housed in foster homes and hostels, these children, or kinder, hoped to see their parents again after the war, although, sadly, the majority would not. Narrated by Judi Dench, and made in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the film uses rare footage, photographs, and, most importantly, the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents and foster parents in order to tell this most moving and courageous of stories.

The film will be introduced by Tom Wysmuller, AFC Advisory Board Member and the grand-nephew of Geertruida Wijsmuller-meijer, Dutch war hero and resistance fighter. Geertrudia, or “Auntie Truus,” as she was known, was instrumental in saving more than 10,000 Jewish children in the Kindertransport rescue mission.

Buy tickets/get more info now