For the first time since World War II, a West German film team received Soviet cooperation in its effort to tell the amazing story of the little-known "Jewish Autonomous Region" of Birobidjan, Siberia. This fascinating chapter in modern Jewish history unfolds through location filming (including the local synagogue and Yiddish Theatre Company); compelling interviews with both government officials and Jews who suffered under Stalin; and footage provided by the Soviet film archives of early settlement in the region.
