Speaker. I would like to ask my colleagues to join me in congratulating the artists responsible for the Holocaust film "The Long Way Home." which recently won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. This magnificent project. which reflects the splendid talents of some of Hollywoods most brilliant geniuses. approaches the Holocaust from an angle often ignored by historians and storytellers alike. recounting the moving and tumultuous experience of Jewish refugees from the time of Hitlers fall in 1945 to the birth of the State of Israel fifty years ago last week. It is a history of a three year period marked by the tragedy of its horrific origin and guided by the hope that the suffering of Jews would. at long last. end in the ultimate victory of the Zionist cause. It is an account of a numerically (but not spiritually) depleted people trying to cope with the destruction of its families and lives. struggling to shape its future against the mountainous obstacles of poverty. bigotry. and confusion.
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