"For the survivors of the Holocaust, liberation was only the beginning."
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
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Morgan Freeman
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Ed Asner
George Patton / Immigrant to USA / David Ben-Gurion / Holocaust Survivor (voice)
Sean Astin
Earl G. Harrison, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization (voice)
Martin Landau
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Miriam Margolyes
David Paymer
Nina Siemaszko
Helen Slater
Michael York
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