'Exodus 1947': a close look at a big story Review: The plight of refugee Jews trying to reach Palestine after World War II, aboard a creaky Chesapeake

By David Zurawik | David Zurawik,SUN TELEVISION CRITIC | July 5, 1997

"Exodus 1947" is a real-life "Mission Impossible" that starts with a broken-down, Chesapeake Bay steamer in Baltimore and ends with the birth of a new nation in Palestine.Along the way, there's a deadly blockade of British gunships, 4,500 refugees from Hitler's European death camps, freedom fighters from the Haganah and the heroism of a crew of Jewish men in their 20s and 30s, many of whom had never even been to sea."Exodus 1947," which is co-produced by Maryland Public Television and airs at 10 tomorrow night, is a documentary you don't want to miss.