Madison Library Screening Documentary for Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Madison Public Library will be screening a documentary later this week in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was April 15 this year.

The library will be showing the documentary “Into the Arms of Strangers, Stories of the Kindertransport” on Wednesday, April 22, at 7 p.m.

According to Madison Public Library, nine months prior to World War II, Great Britain opened its doors to over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. These children, who became known as Kinder, were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting to be eventually reunited with their parents.

“Into the Arms of Strangers, Stories of the Kindertransport”, narrated by Judi Dench, features interviews with 11 of the Kinder, a non-Kindertransport child who survived Auschwitz, two of the operation’s organizers and one of the foster mothers, the library said. The film is rated PG and its running time is 1 hour and 57minutes.

The event is free to attend. No registration is required.

For more information contact the Madison Public Library at (973) 377-0722.

(Photo courtesy of Madison Public Library)