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  1. Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Chrzanów collection

    Collection of documents relating to Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Chrzanów, Poland immediately following the Holocaust. Includes list of Jews living in Chrzanów as of August 16, 1945 and a list of survivors who returned to Chrzanów compiled by the Organization of Chrzanów Survivors in Tel Aviv.

  2. Jewish home for the people with disabilities in the Netherlands, 1934

    Documentary on the Jewish Home for the Disabled. Titles throughout. Nurses wave. Band plays (brief w/captions). Elderly enter auditorium of home. Entertainers arrive. Orchestra plays, cut aways to audience. Lilliputners (midgets) arrive at home, performing for residents, cut aways people laughing. Louis Davids performs in auditorium. Shot of Fritz Hirsh. Opera performers from the Princess theater depart for Home via bus. Children play in auditorium. Opera company arrives. Hans Lichtenstein directs orchestra (good). Opera company performs concert version of? Sequence of elderly lady lighting...

  3. JEWISH IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES (JIAS)

  4. Jewish Immigrants at Haifa

    Sign on prow "Haganah Ship Exodus 1947." Children watch from section of bombed out ship. Beleaguered women and children sit on ground. Injured carried away on stretchers.

  5. Jewish Infantry Brigade celebrates Passover

    Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8th Army, Faenza Area, Italy, March 27-29, 1945. LS, hillside farm. LS, column of brigade marching along mountain road, past evenly spaced trees. MLS, men walking in single file towards the camera, farm in BG. Men with British military gear carrying weapons, camoflauge on helmets. CUs, faces. MLS, long line of soldiers moving along road, squad leader puts arm up and line halts, points to side of road and soldiers rest against embankment. MCU, two men smoking, Star of David patch on uniform. Soldier checking equipment. CU, individual faces. LS, column o...

  6. Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8th Army

    Jewish Infantry Brigade of the British 8th Army, Faenza Area, Italy, 27-29 March 1945. Slate reads: "CM Tischler, Jewish Infantry Brigade, 3/28/45, R2." 02:00:29 CU of door of back of truck labeled COMD 81, MS of door and steps up to it and two members of brigade standing next to table looking at papers as door opens and two officers come out each with board in hand. All go to table and look over the boards. 02:01:14 Low angle reverse looking up at British Brigadier General Ernest Benjamin as he smokes and looks at board. Camera pans left so he is center frame. CU of General Benjamin on who...

  7. Jewish Labor Committee Records, Part I: Holocaust Era Files.

    In “Series III: Foreign Countries” we find a series of files containing “mixed materials” on Belgium. See box 29, folders 9-15, corresponding to microfilm reels nrs. 77 and 78. The files are dated ca. 1940-1947. “Subseries V:C: Addendum” also holds a file on Belgium (1946) – see box 53B, folder nr. 6 (microfilm reel 167).

  8. Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) Records, Part III: Post-War Administrative Files and Anti-Discrimination Department Files.

    The series “General Files”, contains correspondence, flyers, reports, memos, documentation, … on a wide variety of topics, individuals, events, Jewish and other organisations. We point out the following files: “Belgium” (box 122, folders nrs. 40, 41 and 42; for the years 1957-1968), “Child Adoption Program: Belgium” (box 124, nrs. 35-37; years 1956-1964), “Child Adoption Program: Belgium – Lists” (box 124, nrs. 38-39; years 1957-1964), “Reparations: Belgium” (box 160, nr. 32; years 1961-1962) and “Soviet Jewry: Brussels Conference” (box 168, nrs. 20-21; years 1971, 1975-1976). The “Series V...

  9. Jewish Labor Committee Collection Photographs.

    This collection is of great interest for this guide. It contains photographs on aid, cultural activities, the children adoptation program etc. provided by the Jewish Labor Committee in the immediate postwar years. In “Subseries B: Holocaust and Jewish Life in Europe under the Nazis” of “Series I” we find photographs and “mixed materials” on Belgium, 1939-1945 (box 1 folder nr. 9). They mostly consist of poor quality copy prints of news service photographs. Box 1, folder nr. 26 of “Subseries C: Postwar Aid Activities” consists of photographs and “mixed materials” regarding “Belgium, Left Poa...

  10. Jewish Labor Committee records

    Records contain correspondence, office files, press releases, minutes, convention reports, and printed material relating to the efforts of the Jewish Labor Committee to mobilize opposition to Nazism and offer relief and assistance to its victims. Included are eighteen volumes of clippings scrapbooks documenting the work of the Committee, 1936-1947. Among the persons represented are Baruch C. Vladeck, founder and first chairman of the Committee, Adolph Held, chairman after Vladek's death in 1938, Jacob Pat, Executive Secretary, and David Dubinski, Treasurers. Among the prominent corresponden...

  11. Jewish Labor Committee Records, Part II: Holocaust Era Files.

    In “Series III: Foreign Countries” of this fonds, we find several files containing “mixed materials” on Belgium, for the period 1948-1956. See box 80, folders nrs. 25-32 and box 81, folders nrs. 1-2. These numbers correspond with microfilm reels nrs. 237-238. In “Subseries IV:C: Child Adoption Program: Correspondence files” of “Series IV: Immigration, Resettlement and Refugee Aid” we note the following files: “Belgium: General & Lists” (box 114, folder nr. 29), “Belgium: Mila Alter” (box 114, nrs. 30-31) and “Belgium: Poale Zion” (box 114, nr. 32). These files mostly contain corresponde...

  12. Jewish Labor Company 252/2 in Kiszombor (continued) and Királyhegyes

    Agfa 8 logo. Part two of Pető ’s film of the Jewish Labor Company 252/2 in Kiszombor, Hungary from September to October 1940. Hungarian titles throughout. “Egy pár derűs pillanat a Kiszombori zsidó munkásszázad életéből” “II. Resz” Title written on a stylized pillow: “Piheno” INTs, barracks with mattresses on the ground and coats hanging along the walls, men chatting with armbands. In streets, two men (one in uniform) speaking, others gathered around, man rides bicycle. Closer shots of five workers with armbands standing in a line, some smiling. Man in sunlight laying on bed indoors, eating...

  13. Jewish Lads Brigade Camp, Walmar

    MLS of spectators at Walmar camp. MS boys in uniform in line inspected by Field Marshall William Birdwood. MLS of boys marching in rank, 1400 boys in camp. MS of marching wearing caps and white diagonal buckle, eyes right, tents in BG. MS Field Marshall on review stand. (camp been in operation since 1894). MLS reverse angle as boys go by. Birdwood speaking, then boys raise caps in salute as seen from behind speaker at podium. Narrator ends piece "Shalom Alechem" humor?

  14. Jewish Legacy in Thessaloniki

    The website and the application contain information on the various aspects of the Jewish presence in Thessaloniki, such as religious life and tradition, daily life, economic and financial life, publishing activities, organisations and foundations, maps, the Holocaust and its aftermath. Both the website and the application contain photographs and the exact locations of existing and non existing synagogues, schools and foundations, historical buildings and jewish quarters, markets, and memorial sites. The website and the application also include maps of six suggested walking tours around the ...

  15. The Jewish legal response to Nazi persecution

    Scholarly paper, typescript, titled "The Jewish Legal Response to Nazi Persecution: 1933-1942," by 2nd Lt. Jody Prescott, USAR, while student at University of Maine School of Law, 1986. 71 pages.

  16. Jewish Legions gramophone record

    Jewish Legions gramophone record with recording of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and John H. Patterson on the subject of Jewish battalions; New York. John Patterson (1867-1947) commander of the "Zion Mule Corps" and later commander of the "38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers" was a lifelong supporter of the Zionist Movement. After his military service he maintained friendships with his battalion colleagues, including Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who became his close friend. In 1940, while Jabotinsky was in the United States on a mission of the New Zionist Organization, Patterson was there as well, and they took ...

  17. Jewish life in Budapest before the war

    REEL 2. Margaret Gidaly and her children Paul and Elly on a hill overlooking city. An artist with glasses and hat paints the view on an easel. One-story home. Brief view of a different man in a hat. The children stand by Margaret and walk down a stair path next to a row of houses. Brief interior shot with the children. Another shot of Margaret and the children walking up the hill by the painter. 01:00:45 CU, Elly in a summer dress and women and young girls in white dresses on benches in a public park. Paul poses in front of a fountain. Margaret climbs. Paul slides down a large banister. ECU...

  18. Jewish life in prewar Kovno, Riga, and Lvov

    Prewar footage (home movies) of the Katz family in 1929. Kovno street scenes. VAR CUs of Katz family strolling along Laisves al., showing Dita's mother Liola, grandfather, brother, uncle, and grandmother. 01:00:34 MS EXT of the grandfather's wholesale trade store - C. KACAS - on Presidento gatve. Here, the family sold typewriters, sewing machines, and bicycles. VAR shots of store and family at door of store. Dita's cousin Raya (Honon's sister) in a baby carriage. CUs, Dita's grandmother Basia Katz; cameraman Honon Katz and his friend; Dita's aunt Rachel Katz and Dita's mother Liola Katz. Pe...

  19. Jewish life in Radom, 1936

    Jewish life and the synagogue in Radom, Poland in 1936, filmed by an unknown cameraperson. The film was produced by the Radom Society/Club and includes Manny (Mendel) Sztainberg and his uncles, Jacob and Stanley. Added musical track, not original to the silent film, and captions. Well-dressed people walking in street, summer. 01:16 Radom Synagogue. Exterior views. Congregants in courtyard. Men in prayer shawls. 03:25 View from window to street. Teenage girls and boys leaving synagogue. 04:05 Families leaving and walking on street. 04:20 Family walking in street with crowd. Husband, wife and...

  20. Jewish life in small town

    Snow on ground. People clearing the streets, chopping ice on a pond. Horse-drawn wagon in the street. Man dragging a sled with firewood. Stars of David plainly visible on clothing. Heavy snow falling; young boy posing for camera.