Mark was three years old when his parents put him on a Kindertransport. He was taken in by a Quaker family “who treated me as though I was their own child." His parents survived and he suffered a second dislocation, separating from a family he loved, and starting a new life in Chicago. Mark lives in Florida with his husband, his partner of 44 years. Mark knew that he was not strong enough to take this trip, but it meant too much to him to miss, and he did not tell his doctor he was going. Mark lives in Florida with his husband.

Ilse Melamid was born in Hietzing, Vienna, just outside one of the gates to Schoenbrunn Park. Ilse says “My mother, Hella, must have packed my suitcase with a heavy heart. . . but she saved my life.” Ilse’s mother and younger sister remained in Vienna and were murdered at Auschwitz. After the war, Ilse sailed to Australia to join her father, who died before she arrived. Ilse has lived in New York City since 1966. Aged 91, Ilse joins the trip after a week of walking in the alps, together with three cousins, from Australia, Munich, and New York.

Rolf, now Ralph, was born in 1932 in the small town of Wofhagen, Germany. Sent on a Kindertransport at eight years old, he could not comprehend why his parents were not traveling with him. He spent many years shadowed by the traumas of his childhood experiences, even as he built a career as an engineer with NASA. In 1993 he returned to Wolfhagen and placed a headstone for his parents in the town's Jewish cemetery. Ralph is overcome emotionally several times and leans on his wife Phyllis for support. He gives a speech in the Berlin Parliament that brings everyone to tears. Ralph and Phyllis live in Florida.

Eva's parents fled Vienna, her father to Russia and her mother to work as a domestic in the UK, leaving her with her grandmother. She remembers clinging to her grandmother's skirt, six years old, at Vienna's Westbahnhof train station, and someone loosening her fingers one by one to put her on a Kindertransport. She traveled with her mother's name and phone number sewn in the collar of her dress, and after some time of being misidentified and sent to a foster home, Eva and her mother were reunited in London. Eva planned to take the trip with a friend, who became ill, so is traveling alone, sometimes lonely, always engaged.

Melissa Hacker is an award-winning filmmaker, editor and writer, and the daughter of a Kindertransport survivor. Her first film, My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering The Kindertransports was short-listed for Academy Award nomination, seen in film festivals, museums, universities, community centers, and broadcast worldwide. Venus, filmed in Vienna, was featured in the gallery exhibit "Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art," and received accolades in the New York Times. Her three channel video Letters Home screened at Stranger than Fiction, and the NY, Washington DC & Toronto Jewish Film Festivals. Work as an editor includes the Academy Award nominated documentary shorts Sister Rose's Passion and The Collector Of Bedford Street, episodes of MTV's True Life, National Geographic tv, and Beyond Conviction, a feature documentary on restorative justice that won the Audience Award at the Woodstock Film Festival, aired on MSNBC and was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Melissa is directing a documentary feature, Ex Libris, A Life in Bookplates, and has received a Fulbright Artist in Residence award in Vienna, and residencies at Yaddo, Millay, Digital Arts Studio Belfast, Playa, Willapa Bay AIR and VCCA and was a 2022 LABA Fellow. Melissa is also a wandering professor, currently teaching at Marymount Manhattan College and Yangon Film School.

As a Director of Photography for both fiction and documentary films, John Foster has shot eighteen features. He has been nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, for Keane and for Sunday, and the films he has shot have won many awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award for The Trials of Darryl Hunt. Tully won Best Director or Best Film at the Gen Art, Newport, and Los Angeles Independent Film Festivals, as well as four nominations for Independent Spirit Awards. Dick Johnson is Dead won the Critics Choice Documentary Award as well as ten other awards.

Karen Goldfeder graduated from the Eastman School of Music in May of 2023 with an M.M. in Film Composition. She is a composer whose work spans genres, attempting to reconcile the sonic experience of the present moment: ears full of wildly divergent influences and input careening up against each other; access to the written and recorded music which has reflected and shaped human history and culture thus far; conversation and laughter in many languages, the cacophony of industry and motion. Karen’s performance resume as a mezzo-soprano includes touring and recording with many professional choral ensembles (including the Bard Festival Chorale, New York Virtuoso Singers, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Voices of Ascension, Musica Sacra, and the Gregg Smith Singers), solo roles in Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny Songspeill and the Stravinsky Mass, opera chorus for John Adam’s Death of Klinghoffer, jazz appearances at Seattle’s Bumbershoot and the Edinburgh Fringe, a few years as lead singer for Dave Fiucinski’s Screaming Headless Torsos, premieres for composers including Mary Jane Leach, Pat Zimmerli and Frank London, and a few years of touring with Bobby McFerrin’s Vocabularies project. Her choral and chamber music has been performed by The New York Treble Singers, the Eastman Chorale, the Skyward Singers, the Marble Collegiate Church Sanctuary Choir, and the Todd Reynolds String Quartet. Her ongoing collaboration with the film director Melissa Hacker includes the short films Letters Home (2009) and 256,000 Miles From Home (2023), and the full length animated documentary Ex Libris (fifteen minute excerpt premiered live to picture with the Eastman Film and Media Ensemble in January 2023).