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SUMMARY:Film Screening + Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a film screening with Anderson Center Artist-In-Residence Melissa Hacker! Enjoy her documentary My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports\, followed by audience Q & A. Light refreshments will be served. \n  \n\n \n   intimate…heartfelt…The speakers remember how their parents made the decision\, as wrenching\nas Sophie’s choice\, to part with their children\, possibly forever\, on the eve of war… \nJanet Maslin\, THE NEW YORK TIMES \n                                 A simple and eloquent documentary…While many may feel that they know all they need to about the Holocaust from movies like “Schindler’s List” and “Shoah\,” this quiet film makes the horror vivid all over again. And it does so not by the use of gory images\, but by showing the faces behind the statistics. \n         Hannah Brown\, THE NEW YORK POST\n  \nAbout the Film:  \nThe groundbreaking\, first documentary film to tell the heart-wrenching story of the Kindertransports\, My Knees Were Jumping premiered in 1996 at the Sundance Film Festival\, and went on to screen in film festivals\, museums\, Community Centers and universities throughout the world\, including a sold out limited theatrical run in New York City. In the nine months just prior to World War II close to 10\,000 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.This is filmmaker Melissa Hacker’s first film\, and she approaches this little known story of Holocaust era rescue from lived experience. Her mother\, the Academy Award nominated costume designer Ruth Morley\, née Birnholz (Taxi Driver\, Annie Hall\, The Hustler\, The Miracle Worker\, Tootsie\, and many more classic American movies) fled Vienna on a Kindertransport in January 1939. The story of the Kindertransports is an extraordinary piece of history – untold far too long.  The children who lived the trauma and terror of being uprooted from secure homes tell amazing stories.  Into the darkness of the Holocaust it is important to add true tales that are life affirming.\n\n\n_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________\n\n\n\nAbout Melissa:\n\nMelissa Hacker is an award-winning filmmaker who made her directing debut with the documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports\, which was short-listed for Academy Award nomination\, seen in film festivals\, museums\, universities\, on broadcast and streaming television worldwide and released theatrically in New York City. Melissa’s video Venus\, filmed at the Josephinium Medical History Museum\, was featured in the exhibit “Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art\,” and received accolades in the New York Times review. Melissa ‘s recent short film 256\,000 miles from home has screened at the Goethe Institutes in London and Glasgow\, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York\, and the Cleveland International Film Festival in April 2026. Melissa has spoken internationally on the Kindertransports\, curated The Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center in Glen Cove\, consulted on the exhibit\, Rescuing Children on the Brink of War at the Center for Jewish History in New York\, and written for the catalog and provided film excerpts for Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna\, at the Vienna Jewish Museum. \nMelissa is currently directing Ex Libris\, A Life in Bookplates\, an animated documentary on her Austrian grandfather’s life and bookplate collection. Honors received include a Fulbright Artist-in-Residence award in Vienna\, and residencies at Yaddo\, Saltonstall\, Millay and the Anderson Center at Tower View. Melissa is the Executive Director of the Kindertransport Association\, a native New Yorker\, and a wandering professor\, most recently at Yangon Film School in Myanmar and Marymount Manhattan College in NYC.
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LOCATION:Goodhue County History Center\, 1166 Oak Street\, Red Wing\, MN\, 55066\, United States
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