Mark Jonathan Harris is the writer and director of Into the Arms of Strangers. His documentary, The
Redwoods, helped to establish a national redwood park in California and won the Academy Award for
the best short documentary in 1968. The Long Way Home depicted the experiences following the
Holocaust and won the Academy Award for the best feature-length documentary in 1997. Harris
received his third Oscar for Into the Arms of Strangers in 2001.
Read Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport presented by Mark Jonathan Harris at the 2001-2002 Eckstein Lecture.