ESRA Rishon Movie Club 'Waves of Freedom'
"Waves of Freedom"
In the two years before Israel became a state, some 250 American and Canadian volunteers manned 10 barely seaworthy ships and ran the British blockade to bring 30,000 refugees to Palestine.
This film, directed by Alan Rosenthal, recounts how 27 Americans – most of them Jewish – ferried 1,500 Holocaust refugees from several European ports to Palestine in 1947 aboard a refitted U.S. coast-guard cutter called the “Trade Winds.”
Archive footage is integrated with recent interviews with some of the volunteers who manned the ships. One of the volunteers, Murray Greenfield, will lead the discussion after the film. This is an outstanding film to learn more about the founding of the State of Israel.
Movie in English with Hebrew subtitles.
Get together 20:00
Movie starts 20:30
In the two years before Israel became a state, some 250 American and Canadian volunteers manned 10 barely seaworthy ships and ran the British blockade to bring 30,000 refugees to Palestine.This film, directed by Alan Rosenthal, recounts how 27 Americans – most of them Jewish – ferried 1,500 Holocaust refugees from several European ports to Palestine in 1947 aboard a refitted U.S. coast-guard cutter called the “Trade Winds.”
Archive footage is integrated with recent interviews with some of the volunteers who manned the ships. One of the volunteers, Murray Greenfield, will lead the discussion after the film. This is an outstanding film to learn more about the founding of the State of Israel.
Movie in English with Hebrew subtitles.
Get together 20:00
Movie starts 20:30
Location:
Rishon le ZionMifal Hapayis Hall, Revivim School
23 Gush Etzion Street
Contact Name:
Janet or David
Telephone:
054-7335055 or 054-5431714
Email:
janetk@netvision.net.il
Price:
₪40.00
Price for Members:
₪35.00
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