(205) 444-7800 Mon - Thu 9-9, Fri 9-6, Sat 10-6, Sun 1-5
Our April documentary screening is an Academy Award-winning film chronicling the secret smuggling of 9,300 Jewish children out of Nazi-occupied Germany in the late 1930s.
Just prior to World War II, an extraordinary rescue operation aided the youngest victims of Nazi terror. Ten thousand Jewish and other children were transported from German-held lands to foster homes and hostels in Great Britain. Some built new family ties. Some endured the Blitz. Some, amazingly, found ways to liberate their own parents from Hitler's tyranny. And all have unforgettable stories to tell.
From Mark Jonathan Harris, writer/director of the Academy Award-winning The Long Way Home, and producer Deborah Oppenheimer (whose mother was one of the 10,000 children) comes this superb, Oscar-winning documentary filled with rare archival footage and featuring gripping remembrances by the child survivors, rescuers and parents of the heroic Kindertransport. Judi Dench narrates.
Free admission and refreshments! (2000) PG, 1h 58m. Call 444-7840 for more information.
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