Transport 222

In June 1944 a hundred and twenty Dutch Jews were released from Bergen-Belsen and transported by train across war-shattered Europe, arriving ten days later at Athlit, in Palestine. Years later these Jews learned that they had been part of a deal in which the Nazis traded Dutch Jews for German Templars detained in Palestine by the British as enemy aliens.

Transport 222 retraces the incredible journey of two groups of people: Germans returning to a collapsing Third Reich, Jews making their way to what would eventually become the State of Israel.