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LOS ANGELES — A film produced by the Simon Wiesenthal Center has been nominated for an Academy Award in the documentary feature division.

Through archival footage and interviews, "The Long Way Home" dramatizes the fate of post-Holocaust refugees between 1945 and 1948 — and their desperate attempts to reach the Jewish homeland.

"The Long Way Home" was written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris and produced by the Wiesenthal Center's Moriah Films division.

The center's first production, "Genocide," won an Oscar for best documentary in 1981.

The Academy Awards are scheduled to be announced Mar. 23 in Los Angeles.