A Rest Returns

A documentary by Ruben Gischler, the Jewish Broadcasting Company and Interakt about Jewish Dutch people who emigrated to Palestine before 1948. 

Documentary about the experiences of a group of young Jewish Dutch people who traveled illegally to Palestine after the Second World War. It was in the last period of the British Mandate of Palestine where a total of several hundred Jewish Dutch young people arrived to commit themselves to building a Jewish state. Together with thousands of displaced and stateless Eastern European Jews, they defied a blockade set up by the British on packed boats.