DP camp in Austria

Identifier
irn1000186
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.358.1
  • RG-60.3043
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • Universal News (Producer)

Scope and Content

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 539, Part 4. Release date, 09/19/1946. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Displaced Persons Camp" Upper Austria. Fifteen hundred refugees of Jewish descent live in this UNRRA sponsored camp at Admont, dreaming of the day when they can go to Palestine. They raise most of the food they eat. Men walk under sign (in Hebrew) with hoes and shovels on shoulders. LS countryside. Beautiful mountains. Young men and women in shorts hoeing. Two women outside washing clothes in tub. Four men walking together. CUs, children in pasture with women playing by fence, bulletin board in BG ("Any news? Any letters? Any word from Palestine?" heard in narration). Class being held outside. Other parts of the newsreel include: 15:05:07 1: "Wallace Speeches Curbed" 15:07:09 5: "Koreans Hail Freedom" ends at 15:08:03

Note(s)

  • See also 200 UN 5402 x 1 Narrator: Ed Herlihy

Subjects

  • CHILDREN
  • WOMEN
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) CAMPS
  • REFUGEES (JEWISH)
  • AUSTRIA
  • SIGNS/POSTERS
  • MOUNTAINS
  • SCHOOLS
  • UNRRA
  • FARMERS/FARMING
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
  • REFUGEES
  • CHILDREN (JEWISH)
  • POSTWAR
  • FOOD
  • SHOVELS

Places

  • , Austria

Genre

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