They wait for him on top of the Empire State Building. USA Today … Mad Dog Radio … NFL Radio … TMZ. Well, this is the question to ask, isn’t it? The bus crawls through New York traffic and takes Jimmie Johnson from office building to office building. NEW YORK - Again and again, over and over, they ask him how he FEELS.
In the end it leads her to a profound personally discovery, her two half’s have helped make her the whole individual that she is – Jessica Tatiana Long. The journey is a test for her physically and mentally, but through it all Long poignantly takes us through the process of coming to grips with her Russian roots. It’s an adventure that takes her more than 7,000 miles from the world and family she grew up knowing. It’s here that we see the overwhelming moment where she comes face-to-face for the first time, not only with her birth mother, but her biological father, brothers and sisters – the Russian family she had never met. Originally named Tatiana Olegovna Kirillova, Long retraces her adoption back to her orphanage in Irkutsk, Russia, and on to what would have been her hometown of Bratsk, deep in the heart of Siberia. Over the course of “Long Way Home: The Jessica Long Story,” Long tells the remarkable story of how she discovered her first family, and eventually embarked on a journey through a past she never knew. Paralympians and also someone who, from 13 months old at her adoption from a Russian orphanage, has longed to know who she really is. The feature tracks Long’s journey from the States to Siberia – Baltimore to Bratsk – to meet her birth family.Ī double amputee and a Russian-born orphan, Jessica Long has grown up as two people simultaneously, a dedicated and determined young woman who has used that drive to become one of the most-decorated U.S. Highly recommended, and for anyone who has an interest in this topic, or the stories that came out of World War II and the Holocaust.“Long Way Home” chronicles the story of Jessica Long, a world-class swimmer, 12-time Paralympic gold medalist, and 21-year old American from a Baltimore suburb, who was born in Russia and adopted by American parents. I don t know what other documentaries came out in 1997, but I can scarcely imagine one that is nearly as good as this one. This is a powerful, powerful story and the documentary does it justice.
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Somehow I naively assumed that after the war the survivors had an easier time in founding Israel and finally finding peace in their lives (whatever peace that was left to be found), but this film shows the Jewish people in a constant struggle even as nations that had fought to help free them from the concentration camps turned their backs on the Jewish people. Finding passage to Palestine was just as difficult. From these temporary camps for displaced persons (as the survivors were called), the survivors were searching for a home even though they no longer had a home in their native countries. Many of these camps had the misfortune to be surrounded by barbed wire, so that some survivors remarked that it was as if they traded one camp for another and nothing had changed. There were so many survivors, so many displaced persons that the Allied Forces had to set up camps of their own to provide shelter as the survivors can get medical treatment and food. After the camps, when we might expect that the situation of the survivors would improve dramatically, it didn t. We are taken through the horror of the Jewish experience from the end of the concentration camps up through the creation of the state of Israel. It was a long, long way home and for many of the survivors, the war did not truly end until they made it to Israel. The Long Way Home is the story of how the Jewish survivors made it from the camps to having their own nation, and the title of the film is a very apt one. Much of what I have been taught glosses over this period, telling only that Americans helped to liberate the camps and then three years later the nation of Israel was formed by the United Nations.
This is a very important, though little told story. Winner of the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary, The Long Way Home is the story of the Jewish survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and what happened after the concentration camps were liberated.
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