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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    December 5-6, 1938. Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. 04:20:42 LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. 04:21:28 Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods [staged]. LS of man peering through bush. 04:22:31 VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. 04:22:45 VS of them listening to radio. 04:23:17 VS in dormitory playing ukelele and singing. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at ca...

  2. Refugees on ship, arriving in US

    "Bryan" chalked on makeshift slate. Ship - General Black. "America Welcomes its New Citizens" Ship full with people at sea.

  3. Photographs and documents from unidentified refugees, Bavaria

    Contains 22 photographs showing unidentified displaced persons in various locations in southern Germany, includes wedding photographs, New Year's greeting photographs, funerals, and pictures of individuals and groups. Most photographs contain inscriptions on verso in Polish or Yiddish. Also includes a driver's license issued to Moses Kolin in Eichstaett, June 1948; a delegate's pass to the second national convetion of Brit Ha Zhoar, Munich, December 1947; and a program for a musical recital in Bucharest, Romania, on behalf of HaOved HaZioni, with the Orchestra Fratii Honigsberg, November 1947.

  4. Small tile brought with Jewish refugees

    1. Bielski family collection

    Small tile with the image of a tiger brought with Drs. Hildegard and Johannes Bielski, who left for the United States, with their daughter Marion, in November 1939. In July 1938, the Drs. Bielski were forbidden to practice medicine because they were Jewish. With assistance from a family friend, they received US visas. Marion later married Herbert Boxer who fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents, arriving in the US in 1940.

  5. Brown leather wallet brought with Jewish refugees

    1. Bielski family collection

    Brown leather wallet brought with Drs. Hildegard and Johannes Bielski, who left for the United States, with their daughter Mation, in November 1939. In July 1938, the Drs. Bielski were forbidden to practice medicine because they were Jewish. With assistance from a family friend, they received US visas. Marion later married Herbert Boxer who fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents, arriving in the US in 1940.

  6. German troops in Belgium; civilian refugees flee

    Reel 1: 00:49.32 German troops on bicycles, through town (somewhere in Belgium). Streets and shops. Casino signs. Locals and German troops. Policeman. Belgium prisoners repairing a bridge, as civilians cross. German vehicles with WH markings, moving through a city street. Civilians with belongings piled on wagons, walking, along cobbled street. Horses. Men pushing a car loaded with belongings, small girl's face visible through car window. Elderly people and dog on top of cart. Children. Nuns. A group of civilians rest and watch the cameraman film them.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods (set up/staged). LS of man peering through bush. VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at camp. MS man and woman sewing and repairing clothes. Refugees waiting in line to have their name put on camp index cards. LS, refugees f...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees to Canada

    Refugees to Canada. Good scenic shots, mountains, trains and wheat fields. 04:31:24 Title: "Great Four-Engine Freights Creep Up the Wilderness Grades" 04:31:28 Train, title: "Twilight" 04:32:00 Title: "Wheat" 04:32:35 Title: "Wheat - Dim Horizons Across Endless Prairie"

  9. Green leather wallet used by Jewish refugees

    1. Josef Pistiner family collection

    Green leather wallet used by Josef Pistiner or a family member. Josef left Berlin, Germany, with his parents Aron and Taube and brother Max in 1939 for the United States.

  10. 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.

  11. 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 

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

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

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    New batch of children refugees from Czechoslovakia sheltered in London. A little refugee asleep in an armchair at the Club.

  19. Polish Refugees Leave Teheran 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...

  20. Refugees fleeing Belgium and France; destruction

    [Refugies sur le bord d'une route - Nord de la France, Mai 1940] Refugees fleeing villages between Belgium and France. Planes in air, cut in. "Evacuation" sign on bus. Children, elderly, others onto truck/bus, sleeping child in arms. Air attack. Fierce scenes just after fall, flames. Storefront, "Bazar Parisien." Big fires, houses along square, church tower, burnt and falling, broken sculpture, INT. "Femmes Medecin" ruins. "Medecin Maternite" smoldering cots. Wounded nun. Tracking shot of street, low buildings, destruction. Planes in sky. Civilians hide under brush lining road, in courtyard...