The Seventh Million - The Israelis and the Shoah, Part 2.

Based on his book of the same name by Tom Segev, this second part of a ZDF, ARTE and Israel Channel 1 co-production deals with the issue of Israelis and the Holocaust; the attitude of the Jewish establishment towards the Holocaust survivors. The turnabout during the Eichmann Trial and the Holocaust as a constituent part of the Israeli identity. DP camps, the illegal immigration, Aba Kovner, Ben-Gurion, the reparations agreement, Eichmann Trial, Chancellor Adenauer, Yad Vashem, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Holocaust remembrance day, the Israeli youth and the Holocaust, remembrance ceremonies, author K. Zetnik (Yechiel Dinur). Including archive footage documenting the first years of Israel, Begin, Ben-Gurion, and Eichmann Trial. A studio discussion following the broadcast of part 2 with Prof. Moshe Zimmerman, the producer Orna Ben-Dor, Prof. Zeev Shternhal, Prof. Haim Dasberg, the poet Haim Guri and Michael Gilad.