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  1. Polish Refugees Leave for Palestine

    350 Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine, (no date, originally reviewed March 27, 1944) INTs, Teheran railroad station. Polish refugees on platform bustle about as some bid farewell to departing friends. Persian/Arabic inscriptions. Pan, wall of newsstand/booth. Dolly shot, relatives and friends bid one another farewell from train windows; along railcars, more crowded, various men in uniform. Belongings on platform. Men, women, and children mill about, looking anxious and excited, some dressed well, some with hats (mix of Middle Eastern and Baltic looks). CU, native porter salutes in...

  3. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 504, Part 1. Release date, 05/20/1946. Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on board the "Marine Flasher". LS, boat lined with passengers. View from boat, silhouetted FG men with hats, crowd waving. MS family waving, standing at edge, packed crowd behind fence/barrier of Ellis Island. Dark interior. Slow pan people on boat; happy. CU old woman with flowered hat and younger woman yelling at guard. MS, young women, Sonia Weissman (survivor of Warsaw Ghetto), running to hug and kiss. Crying women embracing. Similar shots, including hugs, tears, man kissing woman, ...

  4. Czechoslovakia; refugees; protests in London

    Paramount Newsreel, Issue 16, Released September 1938. Title: "Filtering through rigorous censorships, these first pictures bring realization of Europe's extreme peril." Elevated view the city of Liberec, Czechoslovakia. “LIBEREC. REICHENBERG” sign. Streetcar and townspeople travel about the city’s Main Street. Czech Policemen, mounted on horses, patrol the streets. Six Czech troops stand guard at the border. CU of a Czech soldier wearing his kevlar. A Czech military official points to something afar while speaking to his subordinates. 00:24 PAN of the city of Eger. CU sign for the city of ...

  5. Jewish Refugees in the US

    UJA and JDC appeal for funding to aid Jewish refugees of WWII. Footage of New York, Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Shanghai, etc. intercut to tell the story of Jewish refugees.

  6. Israel, Jewish refugees, relief efforts

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Animated stills, followed by live action. CU, smiling woman. LS, people on ship waving, old woman eating, child, doctor. Man hammering, training cobblers, blacksmiths. Refugees at dock. Tractor plowing. Irrigation trench. House with Star of David on roof. Construction of building, pouring metal. Soldiers on horseback. Railways, building a road, more animated stills.

  7. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    People on dock waving to refugees aboard ship, the Marine Flasher. Men, women, and children arriving at New York City on May 20, 1946 after a voyage that departed Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. CU refugees on board. Crowds waiting. Guards behind barrier. Women hugging. Survivors show tattoos. Children and women. The young man with tattoo B3073 is Berek Gola (also called Bernard Gola) a 19 year old Jewish man from Poland. He had been imprisoned by the Nazis at Treblinka and Auschwitz (where he received the tattoo).

  9. Supplementary Administrative Files about Refugees

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    There are 8 boxes in this series:0.52 metres of refugee case files and transmigration files. 0.30 metres of refugee location services. 0.30 metres of Immigration and labour cases (1948-1952) relating to Shanghai, the Guild of Craftsmen, and Garment/ Tailor Projects. 0.30 metres of refugee transportation (departure lists, 1948-1954). 0.15 metres of transmission of funds. 0.15 metres related to projects: Refugee Youth Project (1947-1949), orphan cases (1948-1967), citizenship cases (1948-1950), Film Board projects (1949), and Rabbinical College (1950). General note: 2 photographs were removed...

  10. German Jewish refugees: miscellaneous material

    This collection consists of a variety of material which documents the experiences of German and Austrian Jewish refugees during the 1940s.

  11. Correspondence re refugees from Czechoslovakia

  13. Jewish Refugees Committee, Leeds: Correspondence and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm archive of correspondence and papers was created by the Leeds office of the Jewish Refugee Committee. Most of the correspondence is either addressed to David Makovski or written by him. The overwhelming majority of letters in this collection relate to the fate of individual refugees.

  14. Central Council for Jewish Refugees: Donor forms

    Donation form of the Central Council for Jewish Refugees/London, special emergency appeal by N. M. Rothschild English 

  15. Photographs of Jewish Refugees in Cyprus

    Consists of one photograph album containing 44 photographic prints of Jewish refugees in British camps in Cyprus. The photographs show the arrival and internment of the refugees, as well as daily life and organized protests of the internment. The album was presented to the American Jewish Committee by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus in September 2007.

  16. Suitcase used by German Jewish refugees

    1. Hanneliese Mendowsky family collection

    Suitcase used by Hanneliese Mendowsky when she left Breslau, Germany, for the United States before the war.

  17. Commission for War Refugees Commissie voor Oorlogsvluchtelingen

    The archive consists of minutes and other documents of the Commission meetings related to the organization, and coordination and reception of refugees in the particular provinces in the Netherlands.

  19. New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia sheltered in London. Women and children refugees writing letters home at the Y.W.C.A. Central Club in Bloomsbury, London.

  20. New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia sheltered in London. Children refugees playing at the Y.W.C.A. Central Club.