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  2. Jewish medical resistance in the Vilnius ghetto during the Holocaust

    Contains a typescript text entitled "Jewish Medical Resistance in the Vilnius Ghetto…", 113 pages, plus endnotes and copies of photos.

  3. Jewish Memorial Pageant - "We Shall Never Die"

    Lots of LS of stage production, chorus, Torahs being carried out and held by rabbis. Some MS of actors (both in the production and reading prepared speeches). American flag. Crowd shots, banner with Star of David. Edward G. Robinson reading a statement: These are the two million Jewish dead of Europe today. They will have no one to ...day of judgment. No one ... "Remember us." Of the 7 million Jews in German held lands, the Germans have said none will remain... When the time comes to make the peace, they will have been done to death. Fragment of Hebrew prayer. Orthodox Jewish men (or actors...

  4. Jewish Memorial Pageant - "We Shall Never Die"

    Movietone Newsreel outtakes from the Madison Square Garden pageant, "We Will Never Die". Parts with sound. There is a stage for actors and actresses to perform (as the "voices of the voiceless"), for speakers to address the crowd, and for the orchestra and chorus to perform. The audience interacts by raising its arms in a gesture honoring the victims. Opens with a semi-circle of flag-bearers. Most of the flags are indistinguishable, but the American flag comes forward to the center. Quick WS of the stage with the chorus, then several shots of the huge audience. Actors and actresses dressed ...

  5. Jewish Memorial Pageant - "We Shall Never Die"

    Movietone Newsreel. Title: "Memorial Pageant to the Persecuted Jews of Europe-arranged by A. A. Brown, described by Lowell Thomas (Movietone News)". Shots of the pageant stage at Madison Square Garden in New York and the audience in the BG. The event was organized by the "Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews". Thomas narrates: "The pageant 'We Will Never Die' is New York's Jewish protest against Nazi massacres." An actress speaks: "In Lublin, five hundred of our women and children were led to the marketplace and stood against the vegetable stores we knew so well. He...

  6. Jewish Memorial Pageant - "We Shall Never Die"

    Memorial service/pageant/event organized by the "Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews," dedicated to the "two million Jewish dead of Europe." LS of stage with big cast and chorus. MCU of Paul Muni reading (dramatically) about "the problem [belonging to] humanity." VLS participants, rabbis, actors (including Rod Steiger), etc on stage. Reciting Kaddish.

  7. Jewish men; market scenes in Warsaw

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "A Rabbinical Type." CU, Jewish man with beard smoking pipe stands adjacent to a fence. Group of children. Pan, outdoor market scene. Crowds, vendors.

  8. Jewish National Fund. Head Office in Poland, Łódź Żydowski Fundusz Narodowy. Biuro Centralne w Polsce, Łódź (Sygn. 627)

    The collection contains correspondence with the Commission of Foreign Currency of the National Polish Bank, as well as the files of the property matters, includes personal documents of Jews emigrated from Poland to Israel.

  9. Jewish new year card

    Consists of a New Year card for Rosh Hashana, on which is a photograph of Rywek Zytnik's cousin, Chaim, and text in Hebrew and Polish. The card was produced in Dzierżoniów, Poland.

  10. Jewish News: the JUNA archive and documentation belonging to the press office of the Alliance of Swiss Jewish Communities Jüdische Nachrichten: JUNA Geschäftsarchiv und Dokumentation der Pressestelle des SIG

    Contains JUNA records, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, original documents as correspondence, reports, court documents, etc. Includes correspondence and other documents on Benjamin Sagalowitz; and collection of documents compiled by the defense in the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur 1936; documents on the Holocaust in European countries, persecution and extermination of European Jews, eyewitness accounts on concentration and extermination camps, Jewish resistance, reactions abroad, number of victims; the book project "The Way Maidanek" by B. Sagalowitz, personal dossiers, perse...

  11. Jewish officials, DPs at Bensheim

    (Munich No. 375) Jewish Officials at Bensheim, Bensheim, Germany, April 8, 1946. Jacob Blaustein, I.L. Kenen and Chaplain Friedman visit Bensheim Jewish DP center. MS, CU, displaced adults and children. Children marching through the camp street. Blaustein and Chaplain Friedman with group of DPs. More of young boys and girls marching energetically. Officials arrive at Victory Club, where they were to stay. Greeted by Judge Phillip Forman, Joint Distribution Committee, and Dr. Nahum Goldmann of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

  12. Jewish Organizations (Czech Republic) Židovské organizace (425)

    Fond 425 consists of records of several Jewish and Zionist organizations that were active in the Czech Republic from circa 1930-1950, such as the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC), as well as records that were collected and used by the Czech secret police after 1950. The materials include information about the activities of Jewish communities in the Czech Republic; the Palestine Office established in Prague and Bratislava to facilitate the emigration and rescue of Jews; the records of the Central Committee of Zionists in Prague and Bratislava; records of the Jewish commun...

  13. Jewish orphanage; Schaap family gatherings

    Children at the Jewish orphanage in Leiden. Boys march in file and perform marching exercises in uniform. Toddlers play along with the older boys, including two black children (the product of a Jewish mother and black father). INT, family sits down for a meal. EXT, apartment building, birds flying about in the courtyard, family feeds the birds from the balcony. 03:01:58 A gathering of well-dressed family and friends, probably pre-war, including the couple seen moments earlier eating at home. The group eats a meal, plays cards, dances, and smokes. The men wear yarmulkes and there is a menora...

  14. Jewish orphans leave Prague for England after WWII

    Scenes showing a group of Jewish orphans leaving Prague for England under a British Home Office plan to transport one thousand orphaned concentration camp survivors to recuperate in Britain before their resettlement. This footage shows some of the 300 children, mostly boys, who were liberated from Theresienstadt and flown from Prague to England on August 14, 1945. They were initially settled at a hostel in Windermere where they received medical care. Boys board a Stirling aircraft on a grassy field at the Ruzyne airfield in Prague. One boy boards carrying a flag. Interior shots of the boys ...

  15. Jewish paper based ephemera

    Robert Edward Edmondson anti-Semitic broadsides: Six broadsides, issued by the Edmondson Economic Service, under the following titles and dates: "'Invisible Government:' The Hidden Autocratic Minority Menace to American Democracy" (18 May 1934); "Prof. Felix Frankfurter" (4 July 1934); "Are You a Communist, Mr. Dickstein?" (15 December 1934); "Justice Brandeis Unfit?" (15 March 1935); "Jews Off Gold?" (10 August 1937); "The Jewish Hymn Onward Christian Soldiers--To Make the World Safe for Communistic Jewry!" (10 January 1939). Announcement of protest against the Jewish boycott of Germany, B...

  16. Jewish Pedagogical Courses in Chișinău city

    • Cursuri pedagogice evreieşti din Chişinǎu
    • Еврейские педагогические курсы в городе Кишиневе
    • Yevreyskiye pedagogicheskiye kursy v gorode Kishineve

    Statements for the payment of salaries to employees of pedagogical courses for the 1921-1922 academic year; students' petitions for exemption from tuition fees and teachers’ petitions for granting them vacation days

  17. Jewish people in Lublin and Krasnik, 1940

    Lublin, late summer 1940, man rides bike down the street. People mill about on the sidewalk. A Polish officer crosses the street. German soldiers march in twos down the street. More men in uniform walking along the sidewalk, as well as women and children. Large trees line the sidewalk. Another group of soldiers walking together. A woman walks across the street but halts as a line of men march on in her path. They make a right and turn down another street. Swastika flag on building, mostly obscured by trees. Horse-drawn carriage. Buildings bombed out along the street. The Cathedral of Lublin...

  18. Jewish periodicals and newspapers from the National and University Library of Croatia

    Copies of the major Jewish periodicals published in Croatia during the interwar and pre WWI period. This collection includes newspaper Jevrejski List (1934), Židov (1917-1941) and pre WWI Jewish newspaper Židovska smotra (1906-1914). These publications cover a wide range of topics such as cultural, political, and public events taking place in the Jewish communities of Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and Jewish communities worldwide. In addition, these newspapers also include contemporary coverage of local and world politics.

  19. Jewish Philanthropic Association : Membership Card Index Asociación Filantropica Israelita : Indice

    Contains membership card index of the Asociación Filantrópica Israelita (AFI), with approximately 20,000 names of Jewish refugees, mostly from Nazi Germany (including Nazi annexed Austria), who emigrated to Argentina between the years 1933 to 1939. Also includes the names and biographical data of a few Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and other countries in Europe. The card index was periodically updated through the 1970s.

  20. Jewish Philanthropic Association : Minutes of the Board of Directors Asociación Filantropica Israelita : Reuniones Comision Directiva

    Minutes of meetings of the board of directors of Asociacion Filantropica Israelita, organized by year.