My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransport

• Director: Melissa Hacker
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• Genre: History
• Movie Type: Military & War, Biography
• Themes: Crimes Against Humanity
• Release Year: 1995
• Country: US
• Run Time: 75 minutes

Plot

During WW II, between 1938 and 1939, Allied forces launched a courageous rescue mission to save 10,000 children from certain death in the concentration camps. These children were of Jewish or Gypsy descent or were otherwise marked as undesirable. This documentary looks at what happened to these salvaged children. To tell their often sad stories and chronicle the psychological effects of the traumatic events (although it was planned that the children would eventually be returned to their parents, over 90% never saw their parents again) the film uses interviews with survivors and rescuers, archival footage, and old photographs. Though filmmaker Melissa Hacker keeps the focus on others, her own mother was one of the children saved from the camps. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

Joanne Woodward - Narrator

Credit

Melissa Hacker - Director, Melissa Hacker - Editor, Joel Goodman - Composer (Music Score), Jill Johnson - Cinematographer, John Foster - Cinematographer, Kevin Keating - Cinematographer, Melissa Hacker - Producer, Suketu Khandwala - Sound Mixer, Susan Korda - Sound/Sound Designer, Tricia Gouvanis - Sound/Sound Designer, Paul Koronkeiwicz - Sound/Sound Designer, Alexandra Baltarzuk - Sound/Sound Designer, Maurice Schell - Sound Editor, Mary Ellen Porto - Sound Editor, Suketu Khandwala - Sound Recordist

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