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  1. Gdynia surrenders; Volksdeutsch refugees

    Refugees walking on the road. Several shots of people sitting by river, near destroyed bridge (narration identifies them as Volksdeutsche); people arrive at riverbank in small boats. Sick and wounded are helped to walk, refugees eating (all identified as "suffering Volksdeutsche"). German soldier hands out candy to little girl; kids gathered around in small crowd. Bandaged, forlorn men.

  2. The Refugees and Immigration

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A memorandum discussing the size of the refugee problem as well as arguments pro and against immigration. It further discusses the finance and retraining possibilities of refugees.Discribes the immigration policy and situation of Jewish immigrants in France and Palestine.

  3. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on the "Marine Flasher" ship. Crowd waving. A scuffle breaks out among refugees, one woman is visibly upset and yelling toward the camera. Refugees embrace, some with bundles. CU of a woman holding a baby. Side view of a boy waving. Various shots of two children. Two women show tattoos to camera (they seem to be mother and daughter, but this is not confirmed.)

  4. Children refugees; rehabilitation in Europe

    A War Department Film. Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 75 Reel 2: European children roaming among debris, hunger lines and mobs contrasted with peaceful suburbs in the US and loss of US soldiers abroad: "Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it." UNRRA supplies are loaded on ships in the US and later distributed to orphans in Europe and Asia. Emphasis on international teamwork to help refugees, teach children, and rebuild/restore/repair nations. Ruins are cleared. Money pitch: "The price of peace." Ill and deformed children. "What seeds of destiny will sprout from within t...

  5. UNRRA aids refugees in Czechoslovakia

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 476. Various activities of UNRRA in Czechoslovakia; clothing, food. CU, from above crowd around bus. Some women hang out of bus window, clasping hands with crowd outside. CU, women and men hug, cheek caresses. Women crying in arms of friends/relatives. "USA" on side of train. Railcar filled with bags of grain. Tractor pulls boxes, contents of boxes of medicines being shown to camera. Joyous gathering outside UNRRA storefront. Woman behind counter dispensing food. CU, bags of coffee, food products. MS, INT sewing shop. MS, woman with rack of clothes behind he...

  6. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Assistance to refugees.

  7. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Refugees wave from ship, the Marine Flasher, to people at dock. Men and women kissing, toting luggage. Children waving to camera. Refugees showing tattoos to camera. Scan of people waiting for refugees to arrive. Seqeuences repeated, although there are a few additional scenes and color bars. Weber family with tags standing together at 06:05:40 (top row: Gertrude, Senta, Ruth, Alfons; bottom row: Renee, Judith, Bela). Sonia Weissman appears briefly at 06:05:50.

  8. 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, ...

  9. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Women showing tattoos. Two men, twins, pose for camera. People getting on/off boat to Ellis Island with luggage. Relatives waiting/waving on ship. Sonia Weissman appears briefly at 05:01:51.

  10. Refugees arrive at Fort Ontario

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 319, Part 5. Release date, 08/06/1944. Refugees arriving at Fort Ontario, Oswego, NY. CU, families; people mingling. LS from above, two story barracks; train arrival. MLS, people waiting alongside tracks. CU, train slowly going by, with young people waving. "982 refugees...housed at Fort Ontario 'Til War's End." View up from ground to windows, bottle of juice passed up. CU, curly-haired girl and father look out window. 02:28:35 At next train window, mother and son, Regina and Albert Gal, and three others smile for the camera. Refugees helped off train. Woman...

  11. 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...

  13. 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, ...

  14. 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 ...

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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).

  18. Correspondence regarding refugees, 1940-1945

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    Correspondence regarding refugees, 1940-1945

  19. 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. 02:35:32 MS, young women, Sonia Weissman (survivor of Warsaw Ghetto), running to hug and kiss. Crying women embracing. Similar shots, including hugs, tears, man kissin...

  20. Papers regarding refugees to Cuba

    Consists of photocopies of correspondence,1967-1968, between Fulgencio Batista, former President of Cuba, and Lawrence Berenson, a lawyer who had represented several Jewish organizations in Cuba including the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, regarding an article published in "Look" magazine about the MS St. Louis. Also includes clippings, two copies of photographs, an essay, "The Problem of Jewish Refugees During Batista's Administration, 1940-44," by Margalit Bejarano, 2002, and notes taken on various scholarly works on Cuba during the Holocaust.