Jack, a Jewish doctor, stumbles on a family secret. He learns that his father, a Holocaust survivor and WWII partisan, is allegedly responsible for the unsolved murder of a Nazi. Soon, he finds himself unraveling an untold history of Jewish vigilante networks, Nazi war criminals and a Cold War government conspiracy to learn the truth about his Dad and the moral quandary of revenge.

In the late 40s, Holocaust survivors emigrated to Australia via boat. On those same boats were 800 Nazis and Nazi collaborators from the Baltic states, given safe passage by ASIO despite their known history of war crimes. Hundreds of Nazi war criminals, mainly from the Baltic states, fled to Australia after the war, hoping to start over and avoid prosecution. Not all of them, however, found the refuge they had sought: quite a few died prematurely in freak accidents or by taking their own lives, or at least that was how their deaths were reported. An investigation, led by three Australian Jewish brothers, sheds new light on the involvement of their father and uncle – the sole survivors of a large Eastern European family – in these mysterious cases. Delving into Australia’s post war history – an age of Cold War anxiety and persistent antisemitism – Danny Ben-Moshe (Moss)’s (My Mother’s Lost Children) fascinating documentary uncovers a network of Jewish vigilante groups, who, in the glaring absence of justice, took the law into their own hands.

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