Jewish Displaced Persons, JDC efforts 1946

Identifier
irn1002077
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.621.1
  • RG-60.2589
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Paul V. Falkenberg (Producer)
  • Paul V. Falkenberg (Director)
  • National Center for Jewish Film

Scope and Content

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. Germany: DP camp, people living in barracks. Central Comm. of Jews in the Am. Zone meet. Outdoor class (Palestine lesson). Retraining. Zeltliz - Hachshara farm. Italy: Hachshara farm. Convalescant home. Maritime Hachshara. France: Moissac (?) orphanage activities, training, Sabbath. Survivor talks about his desire to go to Palestine. Recap with similar footage. Hora.

Note(s)

  • Duplicate footage found on Film ID 522, Story 2560 (This story without sound) Additional Film Credits: Narrated by Edward M.M. Warburg, Chairman, JDC Written by: Ralph Levy Traditional Chants by: Rev. Pinchos Jassinowsky Film Supervision: Al Paul Lefton Special thanks for assistance and footage to: Canadian Film Board Filmova Kronika (Czechoslovakia) Direction Du Cinema (France) Eclair Journal (France) Exclaireurs Israelite De France (France) Federation des Associations Juives (France) Union Des Juifs Pour La Resistance et Entr'aide (France) Central Committee of Liberated Jews- United States Zone (Germany) Joint Relief Committee (Hungary) S.A.C.I. (Italy) Film Polska (Poland) UNRRA US Army Signal Corps JDC The film is composed of footage photographed for the JDC in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy and Germany.

Subjects

  • SABBATH
  • SINGING
  • JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE)
  • FOOD
  • DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
  • REFUGEES
  • REFUGEES (JEWISH)
  • JEWS
  • STARS OF DAVID
  • CHILDREN
  • CEMETERIES
  • REFUGEE CAMPS
  • CANTORS
  • CHILDREN (JEWISH)
  • WOMEN

Places

  • , Czechoslovakia
  • Bratislava, Slovakia
  • , Europe
  • Rome, Italy
  • New York, NY, United States
  • , Germany
  • , France
  • , Poland
  • Paris, France
  • , Italy
  • , Slovakia
  • Munich, Germany
  • Prague, Czechoslovakia
  • Warsaw, Poland

Genre

  • Documentary.
  • Film
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