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  2. Documentation regarding relief to Jewish refugees in Yugoslavia and to Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia staying in Switzerland, 1944-1946

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding relief to Jewish refugees in Yugoslavia and to Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia staying in Switzerland, 1944-1946 - Correspondence between Saly Mayer and Dr. Dragutin Rosenberg, deputy chairman of the Jewish community of Zagreb, regarding the treatment of Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia who are in Switzerland; - Correspondence between Dr. Rosenberg and Silvain S. Guggenheim, chairman of the VSJF - Verband Schweizerischer Juedischer Fuersorgen (Association of Jewish Welfare Organizations in Switzerland), regarding the treatment of Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia who ar...

  3. Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949

    Police documentation from the Schaffhausen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to Jewish refugees and personal files of refugees, 1938-1949 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  4. Institution Logo

    Comunidade Israelita do Porto

    • Jewish Community of the City of Porto or Oporto
    • CIP
    • Portugal
    • Rua Guerra Junqueiro, 340 , Oporto, Porto
  5. Institution Logo

    Centre for German Jewish Studies - University of Sussex

    • United Kingdom
    • Arts B, University of Sussex, Falmer, , Brighton, England

  6. Poster concerning volunteer solicitation for the aide of Jewish refugees.

    1. Jewish American ephemera and archival collection

    Poster concerning volunteer solicitation for the aide of Jewish refugees. (Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal, National Refugee Service, Refugee Work in Chicago).

  7. Refugees, liberation, and an illegal ship (some staged)

    This is a compilation reel, the title on the reel reads: "Jewish Life in Budapest", however, this title does not correspond to anything seen on the reel, except a few seconds of unidentified amateur footage, which may have been shot in Hungary. This footage contains a number of scenes from a fiction (staged) film, with Hebrew subtitles, that indicate the year as 1946 to 1948. There are also a number of scenes in concentration camps (staged or liberation: unable to confirm at time of record entry), scenes on boats, people fleeing, being captured, etc. Shots from behind, crowds marching in st...

  8. Nameplate for fishing boat Stjernen used to rescue Jewish refugees

    Nameplate: for fishing vessal STJERNEN [The Star] that was pressed into service to move Jewish refugees from Denmark to Sweden over a route established between the Danish isle of Moen and southern Sweden. Some years after the war, the boat was laid up and dismantled for scrap. Because of its historic role in 1943, the nameplate was saved.

  9. British Pathé (Unissued/Unused) -- Refugees are given clothing and food

    Titles read: "ALLIES FEED AND CLOTHE REFUGEES FROM WAR ZONES". Refugees (probably from Eastern Europe) carry bundles on their backs and heads walk to and from a building guarded by soldiers (unknown location). CUs of refugee adults and children outside the building. INT, women and children are given clothing. Refugees sit at long tables and eat. General view of refugees milling about outside the building.

  10. Cardboard cover used to hold identication by Jewish refugees

    1. Josef Pistiner family collection

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Arrival of Romanian refugees

    Arrival of 600 Romanian Jewish refugees (liberated by Russians) near Haifa [coming from concentration camp in Trans-Dniestrie]. LS ship docked. MS refugees wave handkerchiefs. Authorities go aboard. LS ship with soldiers carryng arms; ambulances in FG. Unloading baggage with Commandant Morgan, Sea Transport Naval Officer, in FG. Refugees exit ship down gangplank; elderly, mothers with children. Filled baggage wagon passes in front of ship. Young refugees dance the "Hora" on the bridge of the ship. Refugees pass crowded train and board another. Arrival of train in Athlit camp. Members of the...

  12. Poland destroyed; French troops; invasion of the West; refugees

    Reel 4 shows war-torn Poland: Warsaw is bombed, evacuated and burned. Hitler reviews his troops. French troops man the Maginot Line. Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium are invaded. German films show the power of the army; big guns, mechanized equipment, paratroops, etc. Dutch refugees clog roads. Rotterdam burns.

  13. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- Czech Jewish refugees arrive in Britain

    Appeal for Czech Jewish refugees who have arrived in Britain following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. The appeal was broadcast by Earl(?) Baldwin. Footage shows Baldwin at his desk, refugees at a tent camp, INTs mess hall, girls cleaning barracks, and young men writing letters.

  14. Refugees, liberation, and an illegal ship (some staged)

    This footage contains a number of scenes from a fiction (staged) film, with Hebrew subtitles, that indicate the year as 1946 to 1948. There are also a number of scenes in concentration camps (staged or liberation: unable to confirm at time of record entry), scenes on boats, people fleeing, being captured, etc. 04:00:36 Shots from behind, crowds marching in streets with suitcases. Smaller group of men and women in forests, a child is helped up a snowy hill. Women helped aboard a boat (presumably to safety). LS of boat, crowded conditions. Boat moving, man with binoculars, hair blowing in the...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in France and Amsterdam

    667 J (01:00:12): At the "Comite Francais d'Assistance aux Refugees," branch of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Paris. The Committee provides legal and juridicial advice, to help the refugees stay in France and prepare their definitive settlement in some country. LS, relief (money) provided to Austrian refugee. CU, refugee signing receipt. LS, crowd refugees waiting in line. LS, refugees waiting in the lobby of the "Comite d'Assistance," and showing papers to officials of the Committee. MS, table where refugees show their identification papers to employee. Same, another angle. ...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees returning to Vannes, France

    Various shots of destruction in the town of Vannes, France. American soldiers drive past civilians on the sides of the road. Women and children are shown doing washing at a reservoir of some kind. French civilians speak to American troops; a group of them wave to the camera. More scenes of American soldiers, studying maps at an outdoor table, posing for the camera. The streets are decorated with banners and garlands. A group of men carry an effigy of Hitler. and demonstrate cutting off its head. More smiling civilians on the streets, which look to be in good shape -- according to the dope s...

  17. War refugees are integrated into a small town in Massachusetts

    A re-enacted documentary on the integration of a group of World War II refugees into the life of the small town of Cummington, MA. In Reel 1, the town's clergyman describes Cummington's initial coolness towards the diffident newcomers. He helps involve the refugees in social, church, and vocational activities. In Reel 2, individual refugees find familiar work in printing, farming, lumbering, and shopkeeping, and begin socializing with their neighbors as a new kind of respect develops on both sides. Included are panoramic views of the countryside in and around the town.

  18. Jewish refugees in Manila; Plaza Santa Cruz businesses

    The Rauscher and Eisner families in Manila. Pan, Manila harbor. Large ship arrives with passengers by the railing, waving. (01:11) Hanna Eisner sits in a small chair in a garden of their home in Manila, waving at the camera. She runs over to a water pump, washes her hands and drinks. Hanna plays with relatives who fled from Nazism, including mother Irma, uncle Walter, and grandmother Clementine. They dance, play with a guitar, and pose for the camera. (3:47) Leo Schnurmacher, the Honorary Consul of Czechoslovakia in Manila, Philippines, plays with his grand-niece Hanna. They hold hands. (04...

  19. WWII European refugees arrive in New York City

    New York Harbor, new arrivals to America. DPs from Europe, they are not all Jewish DPs, but they are all war refugees. VS, the ship named US Army Transport General WM. Black. Tracking shot of ship's arrival to NYC. Refugees and the crew of the ship wave to the camera as they enter the harbor. VS of New York harbor and the Statue of Liberty.

  20. Refugees; captured Germans; bombed towns; GIs; marching into Paris

    Civilians with rucksacks walking down street with belongings. Some wheeling bicycles. Refugees. These are twilight shots, autumn leaves in the pictures. Red Cross truck followed by jeep coming down street. More shots of refugees. Some of the men are dressed in suits and ties, roads are wet and muddy. Woman wheeling a pushcart with belongings. Two people embrace. Stevens walks toward camera. Empty wet street. Tank coming through town past Hotel Caspiel Hindenburg. Men running, including cameraman, some men firing mortars, others small light weapons. Members of camera crew visible in frame. P...