Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)

2000-09-152h 2m

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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