Glen Cove, NY… The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County’s David Taub Reel Upstanders Film Series presents a film screening of Into the Arms of Strangers – Stories of the Kindertransport, on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at 1 p.m. at HMTC, Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove, NY. The screening is in commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of Kindertransport.

Into the Arms of Strangers – Stories of the Kindertransport is an Oscar-award winning documentary, directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, with narration by Judy Dench. The film tells the extraordinary story of how Great Britain offered refuge to over 10,000 unaccompanied minor children whose parents secretly smuggled them out of Nazi-occupied Germany and German annexed countries between 1938 and 1939. Special guests at the screening will be Holocaust Survivors Anita Weisbord and Helga Shepard, who were part of the Kindertransport.

$10 suggested donation to attend. Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to (516) 571-8040 or axelsarmiento@hmtcli.org.

The David Taub Reel Upstanders Film Series was established in honor of David Taub (1932-2010), a Holocaust Survivor and respected friend of the Center.