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  1. Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc.: Records

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of records of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., contains minutes of meetings and reports documenting the activities of the organisation. The custodial history of the collection prior to deposit is unknown.Conference on Restoration of Continental Jewish Museums, Libraries and Archives, London 11 Apr 1943, opening address by Dr Cecil Roth, frames 2-6Various papersJCR special meeting: minutes, 11 Jan 1949, frames 7-10Summary of 3 reports, Apr, May and Jun 1949, frames 11-14R...

  2. Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. collection

    Consists of the minutes of the advisory committee of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. which took place in New York, NY between September 1949 and December 1951. The committee's role was to evaluate and distribute Jewish material culture which had been confiscated in Nazi Europe. Includes description of and details regarding the distribution of Jewish artifacts, manuscripts, and artwork. Hannah Arendt acted as secretary for the committee.

  3. Jewish daily life and culture shot by Roman Vishniac

    Religious Jews at work in their agricultural community. Various shots of them building homes and at work in the fields in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. Also shown are children weaving baskets, studying and riding horses across a river. This footage contains several good CUs of adults and children, particularly focusing on facial expressions, gestures, and clothing. Shots are well lit and expertly framed. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwi...

  5. Jewish displaced persons

    Film opens with VS of DPs at Camp Feldafing, in the winter of 1946. There is snow on the ground. LS of barracks/sleeping quarters. VMS of DPs, men and women, young men and women, and some children. Walking out of barracks, some smiling. MS of DPs in wooden bunks, some with somber expressions, others smiling, laughing, eating, sitting around tables playing cards, talking, doing laundry, children sit on the floor of barracks playing. Voice over narration says: "These are the people. Our people. Waiting...waiting...waiting..." VCUs and MCUs of mothers and children, couples, talking, posing for...

  6. Jewish Displaced Persons, JDC efforts 1946

    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...

  7. Jewish district in Krakow

    Kazimierz, the predominantly Jewish area of Krakow, filmed by Julien Bryan. Men inside arched shop entrance. Various shots and CUs of people, with many Orthodox men on street, walking, talking, avoiding camera. Mixture of other people mingling and on the move. Market stall selling poultry in the main square in Kazimierz, synagogue in background. Market stalls and vendors. Street scenes, balloons, shops. Funeral procession for Marja Steinberger. Market scenes. Archway in alley. Various CUs Yeshiva boys, ECUs, smiles and laughter, talking to each other.

  8. Jewish district in Palestine; Jabotinsky in Warsaw

    With Polish titles. Camel caravan across the desert. Jewish district in Palestine. Jerusalem, men praying at Wailing Wall. Destitute people. Nablus. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv. Road or building construction. Jewish police in Tel Aviv: at attention, inspecting rifles. A Polish-Jewish settlement (kibbutz?). Agricultural labor, tents in a field. The Polish Consulate. 00:17:20 Zabotynski (Jabotinsky) in Warsaw. CU Uri Jabotinsky (son of Vladimir) in uniform. Seen at train, arriving. Shots of Jabotinsky posing uncomfortably for the camera. Huge crowds leave (cinema?) Colosseum, where Jabotinsky was spe...

  9. Jewish DPs leaving Berlin, Germany

    DPs (Jewish) Leaving Berlin, Germany, May 17, 1949. Semitrailer truck loaded with personal belongings of families pulling away from apartment house. LS, neighborhood in German city, truck standing in courtyard. MS, few civilians standing at entrance as workmen are taking out personal belongings. MS, middle-aged woman holding infant child; several people in BG. Household goods standing next to truck. CU, truck. Hand-written on truck "Lufttransport Munchen Frankfurt." LS, man carrying suitcase in litter-strewn yard. LS, semitrailer truck loaded with household effects going into courtyard entr...

  10. Jewish experience ephemera and manuscript collection

    The collection consists of a booklet, correspondence, documents, fliers, and memoirs relating to the cultural life, emigration, and history of the Jewish people in Europe and Palestine during and after the Holocaust.

  11. Jewish experience in Eastern Europe and Palestine documents and ephemera collection

    The collection consists of posters, documents, and photographs relating to the Jewish experience in prewar Europe and in Palestine before, during, and after World War II.

  12. Jewish Extremists in Haifa; deported to Cyprus

    LS Haifa harbor. British soldiers guard court building. Extremists accused of blowing up railroad brought to trial; out of truck, handcuffed, men and women. Illegal immigrants arrive in Haifa on the "Henrietta Szold" ship. Ship into dock. Women and children helped off boat. Barbed wire enclosure. Man kisses ground, put on ship to Cyprus.

  13. Jewish families before the Holocaust in Slovakia

    Reel 3. Women from the Sommer, Klein, and Grosman families gather for the camera. Intertitle: "My Home Folks - Mother, Sister, Their Family and Friends." Family (well-dressed) walk and pose for camera. Pan of entire family (including the visiting Americans, Hermann Klein, and Jacob Grosman (the father of Ladislav at 01:03 in a light-colored suit)). Children playing on swing. Posing in front of the family shop and walking down the street towards the camera. 01:23:58 Another family on the main street.

  14. Jewish families in Israel; marching in Independence Day parade

    Two children dressed in costume dance and play on a balcony (possibly Menachem’s cousins). 06:46 Pan, harbor with cranes, Moshe walks in front of the camera. Children walk and ride their bicycles on a residential street with apartments (Israel?). 07:15 Airplane, well-dressed people waiting in line to board, El Al marked on portable stairs. People in FG wave to the camera. 08:12 [poor VQ] Dark, Moshe with two small pails in either hand, INT shots. CU of Menachem in a carriage, the baby and Hannah play. 08:49 Marching on the street (possibly Independence Day in Israel in 1949), parade, women ...

  15. Jewish families pose for camera; street scenes in Humenne

    Reel 2. Shows families (the Sommers, the Kleins, the Grosmans) in Humenne. Man greets the camera. Girls at play, dancing in a circle, including Zuzana Sermerova (b. 1924). Family group poses. CU sign, "Garage." Two men peel potatoes. Roof of garage building. Family members pose in front of gate. CU Judith Klein (sister of Bernard and Emery) in a baby carriage. Group of kids wave and walk to camera, CUs. Men walk to camera, one takes off suspenders, walks towards camera. Bernard and Emery sit in the grass with the movie camera case. CU, Judith in carriage. Family in garden; in front of house...

  16. Jewish family after the war; DPs prepare for journey to Israel; new babies at DP camp

    Dark shots of Menachem, INTs. Street scene in Bari, Italy, horse and buggy, Hannah pushes Menachem in pram. Nice group shots of local children (Italian? DPs?) on a residential street. Moshe makes a face to the camera. Window displays of dolls, Hannah and Menachem walk on the city street towards a truck marked “Sica, Milano.” 01:35 Men carry rafts over their heads and lower them into the water at a beach near Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp in Italy. VAR shots of Menachem, Moshe and Hannah at DP camp in Italy (similar atmospheric shots as Film ID 4152). Barracks/huts. Hannah feeds baby with a s...

  17. Jewish family and vacation life in Reichenbach

    Pan, city square with shops: "Gustav Böhm", possibly Wroclaw. Snowing. Clocktower (12:28pm). End 01:00:24 01:00:29 Side view, a woman walks towards the camera with a boy (possibly Helene Fleischer and grandchild Johannes) passing their home in the mountains. Snow. 01:01:07 INT, Else Weyl in a patterned shirt looking at a catalog. [VQ: film is scratched]. She smiles and waves for the camera. 01:01:18 INT, Eric Weyl reading a magazine in the same room, he lights a cigarette. End 01:01:28 01:01:32 Two men and a woman stand around an automobile with license plate "IK-78126 - D". The man with su...

  18. Jewish family at DP camp in Italy

    CU of toddler Menachem Shapiro in driver’s seat of a truck. EXT of the truck with a star and young men, playing and posing for the camera. 01:05 INT, Menachem and another baby play with a ball. 02:22 Outside, the toddlers run after birds, Menachem picks fruit with his parents, Hannah and Moshe, and experiments with walking. VAR shots of children at play outdoors in the street, and adults with bicycles, smiling. Three small children seated on a blanket and in a crib (at DP camp?). 06:22 Children hold hands outside the stairwell. 07:03 “Gelati” stand, children eat ice cream, ECU of Menachem w...

  19. Jewish family at leisure

    Pan, farm/field and manicured gardens. People on the balcony of house wave at the camera. 01:30:12 Sally Isenberg waves to camera. Train pulls into station. Group disembarks and walks along streets. INTs of train, Erna reads newspaper. 01:32:00 In city, Sigmund and Erna approach the camera. Sally takes off his hat. Traffic officer stands in the middle of a busy intersection (maybe Zurich), bikes and cars pass. Pan of city life with shops, cars, pedestrians, trees lining the street. Sigmund and Erna walk past the camera and wave. 01:32:48 View of train tracks from the train window. Signs: "F...

  20. Jewish family in Chechinov and Belzec, Poland before WWII

    Probably in Chechinov, Poland where the Furman family lived. Men, women and children walk towards the camera. Horses pull a wagon. A group of men and women walk in the street and look at the camera. More townspeople. The footage of townspeople repeats, flipped right to left. Men, women and children are fascinated by the camera and keep trying to be filmed. The women smile. Men with long beards approach the camera. More women walk up. The footage again repeats, up to the shot of the bearded men. Dark shots of people in a townsquare with a market in the BG. A man picks up a basket. A bearded ...