Forgotten Refugees (TV)

[Kendra17]

There's a great documentary airing in Cleveland and Akron this month. I think it may be airing in Boston, too.
It's called the Forgotten Refugees and it's about all the Jews that were forced to leave the Arab countries.

From the website:

The Forgotten Refugees explores the history and destruction of Middle Eastern Jewish communities, some of which had existed for over 2,500 years. Employing extensive testimony of survivors from Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Iraq, the film recounts the stories – of joy and of suffering – that nearly a million individuals have carried with them for so long.

Segments on the contributions of Middle Eastern Jews to politics, business and music, testify to the enormously rich cultures which fleeing Jews left behind. The film weaves personal stories with dramatic archival footage of rescue missions, historic images of exodus and resettlement, and analysis by contemporary scholars, to tell the story of how and why the Arab world’s Jewish population declined from one million in 1945 to several thousand today.

Unfortunately, it's not being aired elsewhere yet, but it's worth watching if your station is airing it. There's a lot of information on that site, too. For some reason, the stories here remain largely unheard.

http://www.theforgottenrefugees.com/