Many decades ago, a plan was hatched to resettle thousands of Jewish refugees in a place you wouldn’t expect.
It was during the 1930s in Europe when Nazi Germany rose to power, and Jewish people were facing persecution and rampant anti-Semitism.
An organisation called the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization was searching for a safe home for 75,000 European Jews — and its founder, Isaac Steinberg, had his sights set on northern Australia.
“Genocide was looming, and the Jews needed an escape route,” professional provocateur John Safran says in the new SBS documentary Who the Bloody Hell Are We?
“This is the story of how Israel, which ended up in the Middle East, almost ended up in the Kimberley, on the ancestral country of the Miriwoong people.”
John Safran (left), Cal Wilson (centre) and Adam Liaw (right) explore Australia’s multicultural past in the new SBS documentary…