Waves of Freedom

Recruited in 1947 by the Haganah to break the British naval blockade of Palestine, Paul Kaye and twenty-five other American recruits set sail in a dilapidated ship, “The Tradewinds,” from Baltimore to Palestine. Along the way, they picked up 1,500 displaced persons in Italy in the dead of night, and engaged in a naval battle with three British warships. And that is just the beginning of their astounding true story, upon which the award-winning novel and film Exodus was based. Through poignant, insightful, colorful and sometimes humorous interviews, interspersed with historic footage, the filmdocuments the amazing stories of American men, Jewish and non-Jewish, who volunteered to run the British blockade and smuggle survivors of the Holocaust into Israel. The film is based upon the book, The Jews’ Secret Fleet, by Murray Greenfield and Joseph Hochstein.