In 1961 hundreds of Jewish children were smuggled from Morocco to Israel.
They pretended they were going on a summer holiday to Switzerland.
We hear from one of the organisers of the trip, and one of the children who left his family behind.
Published on Friday, 22nd July 2011.
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