voyage

Over the last several years, in anticipation of the voyage\’s 60th anniversary, survivors of the Exodus have been asked to share their stories in an effort to solidify Exodus\’ place in history, before all that is left are the fictionalized and romanticized versions of the 1958 Leon Uris novel or the 1960 Otto Preminger film (and even those are already being forgotten). Among the recent projects are \”Exodus 1947,\” a 1997 documentary film by Venice resident Elizabeth Rodgers, and a new release of journalist Ruth Gruber\’s account of the voyage, \”Exodus 1947: The Ship that Launched a Nation\” (October 2007, Union Square Press).