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Ruth Birnholz, Vienna, 1933 Screening of the award winning documentary film, My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports and discussion with the director. Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County The Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove, NY 119542 phone: 516 571-8040.
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18. März 2023 · Melissa, a filmmaker, will discuss the trip and show excerpts from 256,000 Miles From Home, a new film she has just finished about this trip. She made her directing debut with the documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering The Kindertransports, the first film made on the Kindertransports, which was shortlisted for Academy Award nomination.
As the former emigres share their memories, examine the guilt of survival, and discuss the fear of abandonment that haunts them to this day, Hacker's unforgettable film mounts to a poignant intimacy that will leave no viewer untouched. Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival.
The children were sent without their parents, to Great Britain from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. These children were rescued by the Kindertransport movement. Most of the children never saw their parents again. Those courageous parents who had the strength to send their children off to an unknown fate soon boarded transports taking them to concentration camps.
Until now, the extraordinary story of the "kindertransports" has not been captured on film. With tremendous courage and ingenuity, a group of British Jews and Quakers conceived of a rescue mission that saved the lives of 9,354 children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland between December 1938 and August 1939. Seventy percent were Jewish; the rest were Gypsies and other ethnicities ...
My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports. Director Melissa Hacker weaves together the colossal rescue of 10,000 children from Nazi-occupied Europe with her own story as the child of a survivor. 10 IMDb 7.5 1 h 16 min 1996. X-Ray NR. Documen ...
