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  1. Jewish religious service at Dachau

    (LIB 6553) First Jewish Religious Service, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. Seq: Unidentified civilian (rear view only) of European extraction speaks in English at the ceremony honoring the Jews who died as a result of Nazi persecution. CUs, Capt. Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, Jewish chaplain of the US XV Corps, officiates at services. The Captain speaks in Hebrew and English.

  2. Jewish religious service; destroyed drug stores

    Military Government, Cologne, Germany, May 31- June 2, 1945. Full screen view, former prisoners of concentration camps attending Jewish religious services. CUs, man's sleeve patch which reads "Buchenwald." Seq: Jewish religious services are held in remains of Cologne temple (this portion with synch sound). Silhouette shot, light passes through one remaining stained glass window of former temple and shines upon rabbi and cantor standing at altar. Seq: German civilians under MG direction remove drugs and other medical supplies from bombed drug stores.

  3. Jewish Resettlers in 1920s

    HA line of cars in small town. People pack furniture. MS of trucks and cars passing by, some traditionally dressed Jews visible amongst belongings on vehicles. HA of trucks on rural road.

  4. Jewish resistance personnel executed by the Nazis at Mont-Valeien (Paris)

    Adam Rayski compiled these names; no indication as to where his research was conducted.

  5. Jewish rest home Lehnitz: an account

  6. Jewish School for the Deaf, Berlin

    This collection comprises a copy extract about a Jewish school for the deaf, London, many of whose pupils came from a similar institution in Berlin in the 1930s. The extract includes photographs of former pupils which have been annotated with names.

  7. Jewish schoolchildren

    Children posing outdoors, stone and mud houses. Some children in Caucausian dress (boys sheepskin hats, head scarves on girls). Outdoor classroom, shots of children studying, at primitive blackboard. Exercising. FG boys study (looks like davening) with bearded man; children exercise in BG. EXT, shots of school sign in Yiddish (?) and Russian (?). Shots of teenage girls in modern dress exercising. INT of classroom, older children studying (modern dress). CU of Hebrew algebra textbook (in Birobidjan?).

  8. Jewish Service at Belsen

    Jewish religious service outdoors, which cameraman describes as having a "simple sincerity." Two rabbis assisting Reverend R.H. Hardman are both ex-POWS - Rabbi H. Helfgot (Yugoslavian, bearded) and Rabbi B. Goldfinger (Polish, clean shaven). Sunny day, large gathering, organized event, lots of people. Young women with arms around each other, staring without apparent emotion. Rabbi holds up Torah. Makeshift ark, tapestry. VLS from above of gathering, big circle of people crowded together, outer ring of people stand on benches. Long line of little kids coming together, join and enter circle....

  9. Jewish service at Dachau; inmate interview

    (LIB 6554) First Religious Services, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. Full screen view, crowd listening to services and voices of women singing "God Bless America" in English. MSs, various flags of Allied nations (US, Belgium, Spain, UK, USSR) flying from staffs held by attendants. CU, Belgian flag with "Dachau" written across center. LS, congregation singing "Hatikvah", the Jewish national anthem. A Hebrew prayer is read by a Rabbi David Max Eichhorn. Inmate Interview, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, Dr. Hussarek, a Czech prisoner, speaks in English of his experience in the various Nazi ca...

  10. Jewish settlements in Palestine

    "The Keren Hayeso presents: A recent chapter in the history of Jewish settlement in Palestine." Various shots of Jewish watchman going about his daily tasks, patrolling a Jewish settlement. Morning prayer with traditional prayer shawl and ritual amulet. Various shots of settlers unloading supplies for the construction and furnishing of a new settlement- lumber, beds, dry goods, etc. Various shots of children, waiving to the watchmen, as they ride off on horses to guard the perimeter of the settlement. Various shots of settlement under construction, trucks of supplies, horse drawn wagons and...

  11. Jewish settlers move into new houses

    French intertitle. Jewish families move into a collective farm (kolkhoz) in the Kolkhida region of Georgia. High angle shot of a line of trucks on the road. Portraits of two older Jews. Men move furniture onto the trucks. The lead truck has a portrait of Stalin (?) on the front grill. Families arrive at their new homes and unpack their possessions.

  12. Jewish shop in Vienna

    Sign saying "Non-Aryan shop". Sign proclaiming "Herzmansky is Aryan again". [Herzmansky was one of Vienna's grand stores and the leading store for textiles; owned by Max Delfiner since 1933, Aryanized in 1938, Delfiner had to emigrate.]

  13. Jewish societies in Lithuania (Fond 1140)

    Correspondence and other records of various Jewish Zionist and public organizations active in Lithuania before WWII.

  14. Jewish soldiers in Palestine perform military exercises

    Palestinian troops wearing helmets and carrying bayonets rush up a hill through an arch in a stone structure (IWM identifies it as an old city castle). LS of troops aiming their rifles from the top of the stone wall. Two soldiers stand sentry beside a Star of David flag atop the stone wall (battlement?). Jewish soldiers, smiling, talking, smoking, one gives the camera a thumbs up. A soldier operates a field phone with a board of international codes hanging on the wall. Soldiers perform various military exercises. Captured German soldiers under guard of the Palestinian troops cross a desert ...

  15. Jewish songbook

    The songbook is entitled, "Quaderno di Osser, David," and is a compilation created by David Osser (donor's father) in Italy of songs sung in displaced persons camps.

  16. Jewish sport organization Maccabi in Lithuania (Fond 349)

    The collection contains records relating to the activities of the Jewish sport organization, Maccabi, in Lithuania from 1920 to 1940. The collection includes minutes of board meetings, resolutions, regulations, announcements, bulletins of the Maccabi Central Board, correspondence with the local branches of the organization in Siauliai (Shavli) and Zagare, and Lithuanian government authorities ( Ministry of Education, City Council), bylaws of the organization and its branches, lists of members, donors' list, cashiers' books, financial reports etc. Files #96-354 contain personal files of memb...

  17. Jewish survivors in Yugoslavia photographs

    Collection of photographs depicting groups of Jewish Holocaust survivors in Yugoslavia after World War II. Includes images of survivors standing near empty rail cars that had transported Jews to the camps, as well as photos taken on the train tracks; also includes large group photo of refugees with a flag reading "Lochamei Ha Ghetaot' in Hebrew characters

  18. Jewish theatre in England: Theatre programmes and other papers

    Collection of theatre programmes advertising productions on a Jewish theme by British Jewish players and theatre groups, some of which are for Jewish causes. Included are 2 photographs depicting the actors in theatrical poses. 

  19. Jewish Trade Unions in Lithuania (Fond 1141)

    The collection contains statues, correspondence files, membership lists, circular letters, minutes of the board meetings, applications for membership of the trade unions, professional, cultural , emigration and health organizations active in the prewar Lithuania: Artisan Union “ Ezras Paolim” in Telsiai, Lithuanian Jewish Coop Enterprises Association, ORT, “Education and Work”, Jewish Teachers Association “Hamore”, OZE, Jewish Refugee Support Committee and Jewish Theater and Art Support Association etc.

  20. The Jewish Transcript (Seattle, Washington) [Newspaper]