Cover image for Kindertransports to Sweden [digital video].
Title:
Kindertransports to Sweden [digital video].
Publication Date:
2020

2022
Publication Information:
Menemsha Films, 2020.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Abstract:
The film recounts the fate of four survivors of Jewish origin who were sent on their own by their parents to Sweden during the Third Reich, with the so - called "Kindertransports", in order to save them from the Nazi terror - and experienced a trauma which exists even today . Most of them never saw their parents again. For the rescued children in Sweden a new life begins in a foreign county with a new language, unknown faces, uncertainty, fear and loneliness. They were saved, but hardly able to understand why their parents have sent them abroad. Later they do begin to understand, learn about the Holocaust and live with an even greater loss: only one of our protagonists see her parents alive again. The film looks at the Nazi crimes from the perspective of their youngest victims, the children and adolescents and through that analyses how they try to handle the emotional chaos that the escape has caused. In retrospect the traces of this trauma can be seized: they lead to uprooting, the loss of identity and the lack of security. Their stories reflect the tragic fate of a winner and at the same time loser of their own salvation
General Note:
Title from title frames.

Film

In Process Record.
Technical Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
Swedish
Additional Language:
In German
Electronic Access:
Access immediately on Kanopy
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