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IFC Films. Try it free. Directed by Melissa Hacker and narrated by Joanne Woodward, this documentary tells the story of some of the many children who were transported safely out of Germany by...
My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports. by Hacker, Melissa; Published by Bee's Knees Productions (1996) Award-winning documentary film directed by the daughter of a Kind from Vienna. For more information, and to purchase dvds or to arrange a screening, contact melissa@kindertransport.org.
Ninety percent never saw their parents again. In recording her Viennese-born mother's story, filmmaker Melissa Hacker reveals the isolation of the rescued children, and the way memories and fears were transmitted to the next generation. Narrated by Joanne Woodward. 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker Bio (s)
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Listen to heart-wrenching stories of Kindertransport during WWII
Excerpts from the documentary film My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996), directed by Melissa Hacker.
From the film My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996), directed by Melissa Hacker (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
•Listen to heart-wrenching stories of Kindertransport during WWII
•Post-World War II Germany: Integration of refugees and displaced people
•Learn about the Japanese bombing of the city of Darwin and Australia's participation in World War II
MELISSA HACKER: In the nine months leading up to World War II, nearly 10,000 children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland were sent to safety in England. My mother was one of these children.
RUTH MORLEY: I remember looking out the window and waving my parents and my governess standing there and waving goodbye and it dawning on me much later that that may be the last time that I saw them. And I have this horrible memory of my governess, who was very spiritual and who used to get our horoscope every year, reading my tarot cards before I left and being mortified at something she saw. And this has been with me all my life and I've rationalized it to be that she saw that she never would see me again. Which is what has happened. She obviously saw something terrible in the cards.
MELISSA HACKER: I grew up knowing bits and pieces of my mother's past but never the whole story. My sister and I knew that she had been born in Austria and that our grandparents had sent her on a train to England by herself when she was 13 years old. But I didn't find out till recently that other children had gone, too, that she was rescued by the Kindertransport Movement.
REUNION SPEAKER: Welcome, one and all, to this, the first major Kindertransport reunion in North America after 50 long years. While we have every right to be proud of ourselves, let us kinder not forget our parents, most of whom are no longer with us. Without their courage, their willingness to sacrifice, and to give us up, most of us would not have survived and we would not be here to celebrate today.
MELISSA HACKER: I went to the Kindertransport reunion with my mother. She was invited to speak and I was there to listen.
RUTH MORLEY: Room number 303 for [INAUDIBLE].
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2 dic 1998 · Melissa Hacker's documentary, ''My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports,'' is about the Jewish children who were saved by emigrating to Britain (from Germany, Austria,...
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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. IMDb 7.4 1 h 16 min 1996. X-Ray NR. Documentary. Subscribe to AMC+ or IFC Films Unlimited. Watch with AMC+. Start your 7-day free trial.
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