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Exodus 1947
This fascinating film, narrated by Morley Safer, is the true story of the ship
that launched a nation”. Exodus 1947 was the most famous of the Aliyah Bet ships
that tried to run the British blockade of what was then known as Palestine.
Recently declassified documents, eyewitness accounts and archival newsreel
footage reveal how Jewish American crews and financiers played an important role
in trying to assist the Haganah in bringing Holocaust survivors to
Palestine. In the summer of 1947, the President Warfield,
an aging Chesapeake Bay steamer, left Sate, France with 4500 Holocaust survivors
aboard, in the hope of being able to run the British blockade. After a bloody
battle with the British, the survivors were ultimately sent back to a Displaced
Persons camp in Germany. This highly publicized international incident heavily
influenced the United Nations to vote in favor of the partition of Palestine in
November of 1947.
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ISBN 1-56082-303-8
56 min., #293, Color & Black & White, DVD, $39.95
Flames
of Revolt: The Irgun
This dramatic video examines the role played by the Irgun in the establishment
of the State of Israel. Fascinating interviews with former Irgun
fighters, British Intelligence officers, historians from Israel and England
and with the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin , are interspersed with
historic archival footage. The bombing of the British headquarters
at the King David Hotel, the breakout from the Acre prison, escapes from
detention camps and the sinking of the Altelena are but a few of the highlights.
More than just a history of the Irgun, this is an in-depth look at the
turbulent years that preceded the birth of the State of Israel.
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ISBN 1-56082-195-7
100 min., #258, Color and B&W, DVD, $39.95
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