Europe's Largest Illegal Traveller Site: The Fight For A Home At Dale Farm

Dale Farm in England is the largest Travellers’ site in Europe. For ten years, fifty families have illegally occupied green belt land they own, but are not supposed to live on. For ten years, the local council has been trying to evict them, but only now - after a bitter campaign that has gone all the way to the House of Lords - is the climax to this battle in sight. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIu In the middle of 1920, Isaac Ochberg, a South African businessman of Russian extraction, started a fund raising drive to save at least a few of the Jewish orphans of Russia. By early 1921 he had gathered together £10,000 (the equivalent of Two Million Dollars at today’s prices) and he set off from Cape Town on his dangerous mission. His task: to rescue as many Jewish orphans as he could in what we now know as Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine. For 2 months he travelled by wagon, train, car and foot around this stricken region doing deals to collect children. While the spine of the film is the story of Ochberg’s rescue of the children, we also find out the forgotten history of the genocidal attacks on Jews, known as Pogroms from first hand accounts. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: http://bit.ly/1GOzpIu Follow us on Twitter for more -   / realstoriesdocs   Instagram - @realstoriesdocs Produced by Hardcash Productions. Content licensed by Digital Rights Group (DRG). Any queries, please contact us at: [email protected]