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  1. British enemy

    Reel 9 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. O...

  2. British enemy

    Reel 10 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. ...

  3. Israel, building a nation

    Documentary which discusses the founding of the nation of Israel and the issues facing contemporary Israel. A picture of the nation's political and cultural heritage emerges through interviews with political leaders and lay people, new immigrants and old settlers.

  4. American opposition to Nazi Regime

    America Condemns Nazi Terrorism Roosevelt Protests; Envoy to Return; Leaders Speak.

  5. UJA for refugees, overseas needs and Palestine

    The United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, overseas needs and Palestine. Produced on behalf of the JDC, United Palestine Appeal, United Service for New Americans. Narrated by Robert Ryan. Features a 3 minute capsule history of Judaism as well as a short animated segment with David and Goliath, Moses, Jesus, settled land, David and Saul-teaching and law. The rise and fall of the Temple, remains of the Wailing Wall.

  6. Organization of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, to whose memory the film is dedicated. Stills of other JDC officials and footage of the members of the JDC relief unit sailing for Russia. Dr. Rosen, organizer of Agro-Joint. Scenes of th...

  7. UJA appeal for refugees overseas needs

    The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Footage of liberation of camps. An appeal to raise money for displaced persons. Shows footage of a number of organizers and fundraisers, and speaks of an assembly in Atlantic City, NJ to raise one million dollars. Features founders of the UJA, JDC, United Jewish Fund, etc. Footage of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg is interspersed with speeches given post war to US audiences.

  8. Column of Hungarian Jews

    Jews forced to walk in a line on Rakoczi Street in Budapest, Hungary. Street is lined with shops. The men, women, and children are well-dressed, have yellow stars on their coats, walk with their hands in the air, and carry luggage. 01:00:20 Brief pan of spectators at left watching Jews walk by. 01:00:27 Soldier walking in FG. Spectators watch on both sides of the line, tram passes, MS shop signs, truck. 01:00:545 CUs Jews walking in line.

  9. Children in Medem Sanatorium

    Quote from opening Yiddish credits of film: "This is a documentary film depicting the life of the children in the Medem Sanatorium in Miedzeszyn, near Warsaw. The Sanatorium was founded and directed by the Central Organization of the Yiddish-Secular Schools and the General Jewish Labor Bund in Poland. It bore the name of the Bundist leader Vladimir Medem. The Sanatorium was in existence from 1926 until the summer of 1942. The film was made in 1938. The Medem Sanatorium was an institution for therapy and education. It was renowned throughout Europe for its modern pedagogic methods and served...

  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 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...

  12. Soviet Propaganda film

    This two reel "agitka" (short propaganda film) was one of the first produced by the Soviet regime. Made in 1919 to show to Red Army troops, often on trains, the film tells the tale of a Jew who survives a pogrom and becomes a leader in the Red Army.

  13. History of Zionism; growth and development in Israel

    Part One. Travelogue shots of landscape-swamp, desert, etc. Aerial and panoramic views of a number of different cities in Palestine. Buildings, camels, Jews praying in a yeshiva and at the Wailing Wall. Brief history of Zionism with images of Professor Chaim Weizmann, President of the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, as well as Nahum Sokolow who was present at the Zionist's First Congress. Also featured: Leo Moltkin, Menachem Ussishkin, Louis Marshall, Henrietta Szold, Rabbi Uziel, Professor Brodetski, Chaim Nachman Bialik, Achad Ha-Am, Sir Herbert Samuel. Construction underway, ...

  14. History of Zionism; development of Israel

    Part Two - The film's finale and rallying cry for Jews to come to Palestine. Introductory titles provided by NCJF accompany this film (their restored version): "This film has no other aim except to be a collection of documents. It demonstrates what Zionists desire to accomplish in the rebuilding of Palestine and their accomplishments in the span of some 20 years. It shows this in pictures of the past. The contemporary character has not been altered through retouching or other changes. The film bears the name Hatikvah: the Hope. And even though the sources may seem matter of fact or primitiv...

  15. Sephardic Jews

    Documents on the Sepahardim collected by Ernesto Gimenez Caballero. The following notes come from intertitles from the film, restored by NCJF in 1994: The Jews lived in Spain, more or less tolerated, from the time before Christ until March 31, 1492, the date of the national consolidation of Spain. And in this land of "Galud" (Exile), they produced a rich culture for centuries. For this reason Spain, apart from Zion, is the Sephardi's most sentimental homeland. The ancestral home of their most respected ancestors whose descendants are the aristocratic Sephardim--The Jews of the Spanish Homel...

  16. Krakow, Poland

    German-produced documentary, scenes of life in Krakow. Mostly exterior shots of streets, streetcars, people involved in their daily activities- on the move with bikes, carts, on foot, etc. Various high angle shots of public squares, statues/monuments and architecture. Contrasted with various shots of a market, most likely in the Krakow ghetto, MCUs of bearded and /or bespectacled men dressed in tattered clothing, photographed in stereotypically "Jewish" poses. Trains pulling into a station, where Nazi flags are displayed on the building, uniformed man in FG as train enters station.

  17. Zionism; Travel to Palestine

    A 1934 newsreel, and "advertisement" to persuade Jews from Europe to travel to Palestine via ship from Constanza (Romania). Original archive copy has title and censor's permission for showing in British occupied Palestine (can be viewed briefly in this video, in a few frames at the beginning of the story: TC 03:52:45:19). Segment depicts the first voyage of a Polish ocean liner to Palestine. The film contains crudely edited footage of the embarkation at the Black Sea port of Constanza, the passengers enjoying the pleasures of the open sea, the recitation of Yom Kippur prayers on deck, an ex...

  18. Repression of Jews, beating, slave labor; Riga synagogue burning

    Man beaten, pushed around through crowd. German soldier, man pushed into unidentified building. VS, CUs of men's faces. Brief shot of road sign: "Achtung Baustelle". Men with picks, shovels, clearing area. 04:02:30 Subtitles: "Leniwi zydzii" [Lazy Jews] "zostah natychmiast zabrani do roboty" [have been taken immediately to work]. Men getting off trucks and carrying shovels/tools. German soldiers giving orders. Men taking off shirts, looking at camera, continue digging, picking up large rocks and moving them. 04:03:03 Subtitle translation: "Polish population delivers the Jewish 'agents'." Ma...

  19. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    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...

  20. Ukraine; concentration camps and aftermath

    The following notes are from NCJF documentation: MCU, overhead shot, woman rubbing shoulder of a man who is lying face down on the ground. Pan of hills, pan to bodies in a pit. MCU corpse. Pan across many bodies, side by side, people walking past sign at barracks: "HALT! SEIS MUIDULASEN!" (also in Cyrillic characters). VS, barracks filled with bodies, EXT, bodies stacked like lumber, intermingled with lumber, bodies in various states of decomposition, Russian soldiers walking through areas. EXT, MS, crowd, low angle, men on platform, one is speaking, many flags (not identified) in the crowd...