Top billed cast

1. 

   Morgan Freeman

   Narrator (voice)

2. 

   Ed Asner

   George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)

3. 

   Sean Astin

   Earl G. Harrison, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization (voice)

4. 

   Martin Landau

   (voice)

5. 

   Miriam Margolyes

   (voice)

6. 

   David Paymer

   (voice)

7. 

   Nina Siemaszko

   (voice)

8. 

   Helen Slater

   (voice)

9. 

   Michael York

   (voice)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-10-18

I don’t think I’ve seen a documentary that has attempted to follow the period immediately after the liberation of the death camps at the end of WWII through to the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948, and this makes good use of a wide array of archive material to illustrate just how torturous this process was for many. With most of Europe in ruins and even the victors on their economic knees, the problem of what to do with tens of thousands of displaced persons was one that nobody had a straightforward solution for. Tired of being shunted from pillar to post, the Jewish people incre...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• nazi
• holocaust (shoah)
• based on true story
• jewish
• documentary