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Raquela Prywes was a ninth-generation Jerusalemite who found her calling as a hospital and battlefield nurse, delivering babies in the Atlit detention camp, where Holocaust survivors were interned by the British, and tending the wounded during the 1948 War of Independence. This is the true story of a remarkable woman whose life mirrored the trials and tribulations of the beginning of the modern State of Israel.
The amazing story of young Hannah Senesh, a Hungarian Jew, who at only 23-years-old was executed by the Nazis after being captured for attempting to rescue Jews out of Nazi-occupied Hungary. Hannah Senesh’s foresight at the deteriorating conditions for Jews in Europe caused her to immigrate to British-ruled Palestine where she was passionate about helping to grow the Jewish homeland.
Set in post-WWII and up to the 1948 War of Independence, The Boy From Over There tells the story of a young, orphaned Jewish boy who lived in hiding during the Holocaust and was then brought to Israel, where he joins a group of kibbutz children.
A young girl visits Israel and envisions the history of the sites she sees.
Puah Shteiner’s autobiographical book, Forever My Jerusalem, details the author’s memories of the fall and evacuation of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City in 1948.
The Return chronicles the life of the Jewish Ethiopians who are persecuted and discriminated against in Ethiopia. Fifteen-year-old Desta and her two siblings come to the difficult decision to embark on the dangerous journey to walk to Sudan where they hope to be rescued by Israelis and immigrate to the Promised land.
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