An Article of Hope

Early morning, February 1, 2003. Radio contact with the Space Shuttle Columbia has suddenly been lost. During re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, the shuttle has broken up, vanished! Gone is its precious cargo of seven astronauts from around the world. Among them, Col. Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut. Also gone, a cherished artifact: a tiny Torah scroll that had been smuggled into a concentration camp during the Holocaust, entrusted to a young boy who managed to survive, and was now being carried into space by Ilan Ramon. Ramon, whose foray into space embodied the pride and hopes not only of Israel, but of the entire Jewish people, saw in this Torah scroll a symbol of ``the ability of the Jewish people to survive ...and to go from the darkest of days ... to days of hope and faith in the future." Profoundly moving and uplifting, An Article of Hope explores both the inspiring legacy of Ilan Ramon, and the journey of the Torah scroll from the depths of one of civilizations darkest hours, to the height of human achievement -- a journey that would fulfill a promise made by a small boy in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust -- to use the Torah scroll to tell the world what happened in the camp. Directed by six-time Emmy award winning filmmaker Dan Cohen, this stirring documentary is a story of survival, faith, triumph and hope, and a tribute to the resilience and unwavering spirit of the human race.

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