Article 584

In this documentary filmmaker Pinchas Schatz sets out to determine the fate of his grandfather a Zionist leader in the former Soviet republic of Estonia between the two world wars Accompanied by his mother Margalit his grandfathers daughter they journey back to Estonia where in the summer of 1995 KGB archives and secret files relating to the case were made public From these and the new testimonies of other witnesses they are able to piece together a largely unknown chapter in the tragic annals of the Zionist movement in the former Soviet Union and more personally the official verdict against his grandfather for trying to establish a BourgeoisJewish State in Palestine with the assistance of the Capitalist countries