My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Melissa Hacker
Joanne Woodward
Alexandra Balthazuk
John R Foster
Joel Goodman
Trisha Gouvanis
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Synopsis
This documentary focuses on several rescue missions made in nine months--between December 1938 and August 1939--that saved nearly 10,000 Jewish, Gypsy and otherwise "undesirable" children from concentration camp fate. 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.
Director
Melissa Hacker
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States February 1996
Released in United States January 1996
Released in United States on Video December 30, 2003
Released in United States Winter December 2, 1998
Re-released in United States January 25, 1999
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (market) February 15-26, 1996.
Shown at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival July-August 1995.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (in competition) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 1996.
Feature directorial debut for Melissa Hacker.
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at San Francisco Jewish Film Festival July-August 1995.)
Released in United States January 1996 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (in competition) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 1996.)
Re-released in United States January 25, 1999 (Anthology Film Archives; New York City)
Released in United States February 1996 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (market) February 15-26, 1996.)
Released in United States Winter December 2, 1998
Released in United States on Video December 30, 2003
