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  1. Refugees

    Iran: Group of women, children, few men, walking in sun, sand. Mountains in BG. CUs of faces, bare feet, hands, luggage and bundles. Arrival at refugee camp. Other refugees greet them, they embrace. CU of people exchanging kisses, particularly women and children, and greetings. Registration. VS, tents, washing, getting clothes, eating.

  2. Refugees

    Magyar Híradó 950. Intertitle reads “LENGYEL MENEKÜLTEK érkeztek a Kárpátok hágóin Magyarországra. M.F.I- HORVÁTH.” The Hungarian landscape from a moving train. Two soldiers ride bikes along the road, and the second one waves. The train moves quickly past buildings. In the yards are various soldiers and multiple horses attached to carts. A large number of horse drawn carts all together on the side of the road. A man sits in a cart pulled by two horses, multiple others trailing behind him. A man in uniform sits on top a pile of items in a horse-drawn cart, looking at the camera as he rolls p...

  3. Polish refugees

    Slate: African Mirror #216 "South Africa Provides Sanctuary." Camera: K. Sara. and scenes by courtesy of United News. Camp for Polish children, refugees in South Africa during a visit by Harry Lawrence, Minister of Interior. School scenes, children performing for the visitors. Hospital. Church service. Polish dances. Polish army marching (in Poland).

  4. Interned Refugees

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)

    Assistance to refugees from Germany and Austria, most of whom were Jewish, interned in Britain as "Prisoners of War" in May 1940 and transferred to Australia and Canada shortly thereafter.

  5. Jewish refugees

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 224. Release date, 04/08/1944. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At railroad station, refugees getting off train, walking towards camera. Sign: "Canada... You." Welcomed by friends; getting into friends' cars; CU Jews getting into car, child, woman, man; CU baby in mother's arms.

  6. Child refugees at Lowestoft Holiday Camp. Child refugees ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Child refugees at Lowestoft Holiday Camp. Child refugees having a meal at Pakefield Holiday Camp, Lowestoft, Suffolk.

  7. Destroyed village; Refugees evacuating

    [Refugies sur les routes - distribution de soupe, infirmiere, Mai 1940] Burning village, blaze. Carrying wounded civilian. Stone, timber on fire. Airplanes. Red Cross buildings, gate with sign, "Centre Hospitalie & H.O.E. Primaire." HAS, damaged roofs, etc. INT, rooms. INT, ambulances. Damaged train. "Hospice St. Ano?" Cathedral and cemetery, crosses, badly damaged. Village mourners, 2 women with umbrellas, flowers, CU, crucifix. Destroyed classroom, books, desks, etc. Pan, city in ruins, storefronts. MCU, mother and child, dead on street. People evacuating, bundles and valises massed i...

  8. French refugees; German convoy

    Refugees leaving town using various modes of transporation. Couples walking, women pushing prams, one pram has a rabbit in a cage atop. Horse-drawn carts with people and possessions in the back. One of the carts has a flat tire but continues anyway. A couple of cars, one with bicycles atop, stuffed so full of belongings that the passengers ride, stanidng, on the side bumpers. More shots of refugees moving slowyly down a road. Empty, destroyed town, dead horses in the street. Refugees on side of road, German Army trucks on the other. (Good sense of dislocation and movement.)

  9. Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

    Ship pulled in at port, people aboard wave. MS woman and baby are processed at desk. People filing off ship, boarding trucks, in bread line, eating outdoors, in English class, at leisure "playing" outside.

  10. Refugees in Transylvania

    200,000 refugees from Ukraine entering Transylvania, fleeing "Red Hordes." Everybody brings livestock. Large open field, with many people of different regions with wagons and livestock.

  11. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

  12. Liberation of Czechoslovakia; refugees

    Red Cross workers on roadside with civilians. Shot of city from high angle. Sign, in English and Russian reads: "Welcome the American Heroic Army." Another part of the sign reads: "Welcome the Soviet Army." Pan to jeep Toluca. Sign in Czech reads: "Vplzni...Skodovy Zavody." LS from balcony to train station. Sign reads: "You are entering Pilsen by courtesy of CCB 16th Armd. Div." Another sign reads: "What you see on the street don't blame on the pigeons." VS of truckload of women and children holding red flags with hammer and sickle on them. They drive off and what appears to be a Russian of...

  13. Refugees in France

    Paramount Newsreel, Issue 74, Released May 1941 “Preview of Despair” Voice: Gilbert Martyn "First authentic films of refugee camps in conquered France - the first real hint of what's going on throughout a Europe in Nazi chains." Refugees work in unidentified internment camp; French flag; man digging with one arm. Wounded refugees. Women walk into women’s barracks (probably Rivesaltes). INT of barracks, fixes bunks, luggage on shelf, scrubs clothes. INT, wounded men in hospital (matches photo from Récébédou), nurses. “1938” Refugees trek over mountain in snow, warm a boy’s feet at fire (acco...

  14. Jewish refugees to Palestine

    Jewish refugees from Germany preparing to leave France for Palestine. MS of entryway to Marseilles harbor. Jewish immigrants from the British sector of Berlin arrive by train in Marseilles. Group standing beside train tracks and CU of people leaning out train windows. Shots of refugees being fed at station soup kitchen run by nuns. CU of little girl and pieces of bread, little boy with Star of David patch on jacket. Representatives wearing HIAS armpatches. LS Ship Providence which will be taking these legal immigrants to Palestine. LS crowd of passengers lining up at foot of gangplank. CU a...

  15. French refugees and POWs

    Refugee families with heavily loaded wagons cross in front of camera at end of town. Refugees, including children, push bicylces and baby carriages. Tanks pass by. Camera shoots from ground up toward soldiers atop tanks. The soldiers look and sometimes smile at camera. Germans search boarded-up shops, sprawl around city, taking over town. Brief inerior of soldier, asleep in a chair. French POWs entering and exiting building, being rushed down a street by German guard. A couple of civilians, including a woman, with the POWs. Various shots of POWS marching down road, with a tank and flowers g...

  16. Evian Conference on Refugees

    With voiceover. EXT, buildings and homes overlooking Lake Geneva. Architecture of the Hotel Royal, the conference center for the committee. CU, Myron C. Taylor, the spokesman for the United States and the initial president of the committee, walking with a group of men including James McDonald (seen clearly at 06:57:58 - the tall man with white hair). French senator Henry Béringer and Great Britain’s Lord Winterton outside the Hotel Royal. Pan around the large conference room and delegates. Taylor addresses the committee members.

  17. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

  18. St. Louis, refugees

    The JDC produced this film to record what it thought would be a successful effort to save over 900 Jews, including 200 children, by sailing them from Nazi Germany to Cuba on the ship the St. Louis in 1939. When Cuba refused to allow the passengers to land, the ship sailed to the Miami area where the U.S. government also barred the refugees' entrance. The St. Louis languished in the waters around Cuba while the JDC searched for countries to accept the refugees. Finally, some European countries accepted the refugees and the St. Louis returned to Europe. Tragically, many of the refugees ended ...