Nathan AxelrodReseñas

A Belgian priest who saved children during the Holocaust visits Israel. The Priest disembarks from an airplane accompanied by his wife, and is greeted with blessings, kisses and flowers by the children he saved. (fonte: Jerusalem cinematheque)

A big screen adaptation of author Zvi Lieberman’s children’s book of the same title. Young German Jewish teens arriving in the country at the Nahalat Achim youth village struggle to fit in amongst their native peers. When asked why they are being standoffish and will not join in on the singing and gameplaying, they reply that they can’t very well be happy as long as their parents are detained in concentration camps back in Germany. The youth councillor who has overheard this exchange and wants to help bring the kids together and to support the new immigrants, then tells them the historic tale of Galil El’s heroic youths who had stood up to the Roman occupier 2,000 years earlier. The majority of the film is comprised of the councillor’s story in which the youths rebuild their village after the Romans had destroyed it, just as the young German youths will now rebuild their lives in the (future) land of Israel. (fonte: Jerusalem cinematheque)

The children of Tehran, a group of hundreds of children who were transferred from Poland to Tehran and from there to Port Said in Egypt, arrive in Palestine by train. The train stops temporarily at the train stations in Rehovot and Hadera, where hundreds of people wait for the children and wave to them. Finally, the train arrives at the last station in Atlit where a festive reception is held. Adults and schoolchildren carrying flowers, flags, and signs welcome the kids. The children get off the train, nurses and Magen David Adom members carry the sick and small children in their arms. A policeman talking to a group of children. The children are taken by bus to their temporary residence. (fonte: Jerusalem Cinematheque)