UJA appeal for refugees overseas needs

Identifier
irn1002010
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.621.1
  • RG-60.2521
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945, 1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • RKO Pathe Inc. (Producer)
  • Linda Levi (Producer)
  • National Center for Jewish Film
  • UJA (Producer)

Scope and Content

The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Footage of liberation of camps. An appeal to raise money for displaced persons. Shows footage of a number of organizers and fundraisers, and speaks of an assembly in Atlantic City, NJ to raise one million dollars. Features founders of the UJA, JDC, United Jewish Fund, etc. Footage of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg is interspersed with speeches given post war to US audiences.

Note(s)

  • Additional Film Credits: Narrated by: Orson Welles Written by: Ardis Smith Edited by: Gene Milford See Story 761 and Story 2632 for clips from this film.

Subjects

  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • TRAIN STATIONS
  • FLAGS
  • CZECHOSLOVAKIA
  • JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE)
  • BANNERS
  • NURSES
  • CROWDS
  • UNITED JEWISH APPEAL (UJA)
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • ROMANIA
  • CHILDREN (JEWISH)
  • HUNGARY
  • PROPAGANDA
  • TRAINS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES)
  • SPEECHES
  • LICE
  • FOOD
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)

Places

  • New York, NY, United States
  • , Romania
  • , Czechoslovakia
  • , Hungary
  • , Israel
  • , Germany

Genre

  • Documentary.
  • Film
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