Haapalah

In1929, the Greidinger family opened the first cinema in Haifa, Israel.

In 1941, when Calman Greidinger was 17 years old , the family embarked 17-day boat ride to Durban.
The British government had issued an emergency evacuation of its citizens from Palestine, and the Greidinger family, who had immigrated there from the United Kingdom in the early 1930s, was among the evacuees.
After arriving in South Africa, however, the family was denied entry because a niece and nephew had been born in Palestine and therefore were not British citizens.
Moshe Greidinger, requested a meeting with the director of immigration.
Moshe, a charter member of the Rotary Club of Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Palestine, was wearing his Rotary
pin that day, which was noticed by the immigration director, who sported one on his own jacket. The two men formed an instant bond, and the director allowed the boat to come ashore.
He later helped the two children obtain British citizenship.