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World Service,22 Jul 2011,10 mins

Moroccan exodus

Witness History

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In 1961 hundreds of Jewish children were smuggled from Morocco to Israel. They pretended they were going on a summer holiday to Switzerland. We hear from one of the organisers of the trip, and one of the children who left his family behind.

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