Three-part series that was inspired by the Kasztner-Greenwald libel trial and the story of Rezso Israel Kasztner. Kasztner, a journalist, attorney and Zionist leader in Hungary, served beginning in 1943 as vice president of the Committee for Aid and Rescue of the Zionist movement that was headed by Otto Komoly.
Episodes in the documentary series produced by the Israel Broadcast Authority "Revival - The First 50 Years": "Ingathering of the Exiles" (the mass immigration 1948-1958), "A Nation in Uniform" (Israeli Security in the Years 1949-1956),"In the Shadow of the Shoah" (the relation of Israel to the Shoah 1948-1966).The third episode "In the Shadow of the Shoah", deals with the breach that existed between Shoah survivors and natives of Israel in the first decade of the state, the resistance that the reparations agreement with Germany aroused, and cut across political boundaries, the placing of the cornerstone of Yad...
The lives of six German, Austrian and Russian Jews cross paths in war time Shanghai. This documentary film traces their lives in exile through interviews, documents, photos combined with scenes of contemporary Shanghai. Located in the Far East's greatest metropolis with its numerous contradictory and conflicting histories and populations, these documentary episodes converge to form a startling new account of an historic exile.
Documentary film about a group of Israeli survivors, natives of Hungary, who were members of the resistance underground and rescue organizations visiting Budapest and telling about their lives during the Nazi occupation. Includes archival films that document Budapest during the war and mainly during the German occupation.
Benjamin, a teenage Holocaust survivor, arrives and settles in the youth's village Ben Shemen during the British mandat. He is assigned to school but the burden of his war experiences hinders his integration within the communal life and he refuses every communication and every group task. Although there is no food shortage in Ben Shemen, he hoards bread. His teachers decide to help him by making him one of the torchbearers in the Chanukah ceremony, but Benjamin remains alienated. An accidental encounter with a barbed wire fence enclosing cattle floods back his concentration camp memories and he digs up the...
Based on the acclaimed novel by Leon Uris (1958), this epic drama tells the story of "Exodus", an illegal immigration ship that became the symbol of the struggle for the right of free Jewish immigration into Palestine and the birth of the Jewish state. The story heightens the tensions between the British, the Arabs and the Jews of Palestine. "Exodus" was shot on location all over the Mediterranean and its cast includes many celebrated actors (Paul Newman, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb, Sal Mineo and Eva Marie Saint). The music by composer Ernest Gold won an Academy Award.
The lives of six German, Austrian and Russian Jews cross paths in war time Shanghai. This documentary film traces their lives in exile through interviews, documents, photos combined with scenes of contemporary Shanghai. Located in the Far East's greatest metropolis with its numerous contradictory and conflicting histories and populations, these documentary episodes converge to form a startling new account of an historic exile.