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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. 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.

  2. Leather wallet used by German Jewish refugees

    1. Annemarie Warschauer family collection

    Leather document case used by Annemarie Warschauer, 19, or a family member when they left Germany for Shanghai, China, in 1940. The Nazi regime took power in 1933 and anti-Jewish policies to persecute Jews became law. In 1936, a Nazi thugs took her father from their home and killed him. In 1938, Annemarie married Egon Israelski. A few weeks later Egon was assigned to a forced labor camp and Annemarie volunteered to go with him. When Egon was injured, she had to work in a factory. After they promised to leave Germany, they were released from labor service. Along with Annemarie's mother and h...

  3. Refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, NY

    16mm film. Title card: "The National Refugee Service: A Constituent Agency of the United Jewish Appeal presents" Title card: "Over the Rainbow Bridge" Title card: "William S. Gailmor Narrator" Relates the story of one thousand Jewish refugees who were brought to the United States under special orders from President Roosevelt in 1944. Once in America, they were transported to the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. At the fort, the refugees led somewhat peaceful lives but were unable to travel beyond its boundaries. They remained in the shelter for about a year and a ...

  4. Jewish refugees in the Dominican Republic

    Public information film about the immigration of Jewish refugees from Europe in the Dominican Republic. Jewish refugees work hard to create a prosperous home for themselves in Sosua. Everyone plays a part in the efficient and self-sustaining community that is mainly powered by physical labor. There are several scenes where settlers act as hairdressers and doctors, occupations the settlers most likely had before leaving Europe. The film opens with a pinpoint of San Domingo on a map. Scenes of a beautiful seascape. Mountains and houses dot the landscape, abundant wildlife. Houses under constr...

  5. Refugees from Yugoslavia arrive in Italy

    Paramount Newsreel, Issue 51, Released February 1944 “Italy: Yugoslav Patriots Rescued!” Voice: Bob Harris Yugoslav civilians rescued and transported to Allied territory in Italy for rehabilitation. Signal Corps film of refugees from Yugoslavia getting off boat in Italy, some with large bundles. Animated map. Barracks and tents, line of refugees walking. Soldier checks papers. Walking past barracks. Col. Macfarland, US Army Chief of the “dis-placed persons commission” talks to a group. US soldiers unload truck with American food, ham. The refugees eat soup, bread. Yugoslav soldiers from “Ti...

  6. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees camp

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Refugees camp.

  7. UJA fundraising film about Jewish refugees

    From Cinematography of the Holocaust catalog: The long journey, by train, then bus, and then by ship, until refugees finally reach Israel. The poor facilities and the lack of care for the patients and the urgency for help. A former prison is used as a mental institution because no other facilities were available at that time. Shotlist: Jewish refugees arriving. CREDITS. GV: City (Vienna?). Train arriving at station and refugees alighting. Refugees proceeding to waiting bus. Jewish Agency official processing papers. GVs: Transit camp. Refugees at transit camp, having meal. Pictures of Israel...

  8. JDC supplies unloaded for refugees in Cyprus

    Dockworkers unload relief supplies (most likely in port of Famagusta) for Jewish refugees held in British detainee camps on Cyprus (from August 1946 to February 11, 1949). The Joint provided food, medical, and welfare supplies and other services for detainees. Two men wheel a box filled with fish. Boxes offloaded from a ship by a crane, the boxes lowered. Boxes of fish are loaded on hand trucks by dockworkers and carted away. Men move a large wooden board labeled “AJDC 832 CYPRUS”. Workers carry large sacks on their shoulders. Ship in BG. CU of fish in open box as it is wheeled past, truck ...

  9. Danish rescue mission; refugees arrive in Sweden

    Danish Jews fleeing to Sweden in 1943 and arrive at the refugee center. Boat at shoreline. Group of men chopping wood. Pan, refugees gather in reception hall in Sweden. CU, baby, children. Quick shot of boat. Interviews. Chopping wood. Line of refugees. Medical examinations. Photographs taken. Pan, line. CUs, food, two women serving food. Diplomats, office. Boat in water.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    December 5-6, 1938. Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. 04:20:42 LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. 04:21:28 Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods [staged]. LS of man peering through bush. 04:22:31 VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. 04:22:45 VS of them listening to radio. 04:23:17 VS in dormitory playing ukelele and singing. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at ca...

  11. Refugees on ship, arriving in US

    "Bryan" chalked on makeshift slate. Ship - General Black. "America Welcomes its New Citizens" Ship full with people at sea.

  12. Photographs and documents from unidentified refugees, Bavaria

    Contains 22 photographs showing unidentified displaced persons in various locations in southern Germany, includes wedding photographs, New Year's greeting photographs, funerals, and pictures of individuals and groups. Most photographs contain inscriptions on verso in Polish or Yiddish. Also includes a driver's license issued to Moses Kolin in Eichstaett, June 1948; a delegate's pass to the second national convetion of Brit Ha Zhoar, Munich, December 1947; and a program for a musical recital in Bucharest, Romania, on behalf of HaOved HaZioni, with the Orchestra Fratii Honigsberg, November 1947.

  13. Small tile brought with Jewish refugees

    1. Bielski family collection

    Small tile with the image of a tiger brought with Drs. Hildegard and Johannes Bielski, who left for the United States, with their daughter Marion, in November 1939. In July 1938, the Drs. Bielski were forbidden to practice medicine because they were Jewish. With assistance from a family friend, they received US visas. Marion later married Herbert Boxer who fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents, arriving in the US in 1940.

  14. Brown leather wallet brought with Jewish refugees

    1. Bielski family collection

    Brown leather wallet brought with Drs. Hildegard and Johannes Bielski, who left for the United States, with their daughter Mation, in November 1939. In July 1938, the Drs. Bielski were forbidden to practice medicine because they were Jewish. With assistance from a family friend, they received US visas. Marion later married Herbert Boxer who fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents, arriving in the US in 1940.

  15. German troops in Belgium; civilian refugees flee

    Reel 1: 00:49.32 German troops on bicycles, through town (somewhere in Belgium). Streets and shops. Casino signs. Locals and German troops. Policeman. Belgium prisoners repairing a bridge, as civilians cross. German vehicles with WH markings, moving through a city street. Civilians with belongings piled on wagons, walking, along cobbled street. Horses. Men pushing a car loaded with belongings, small girl's face visible through car window. Elderly people and dog on top of cart. Children. Nuns. A group of civilians rest and watch the cameraman film them.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods (set up/staged). LS of man peering through bush. VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at camp. MS man and woman sewing and repairing clothes. Refugees waiting in line to have their name put on camp index cards. LS, refugees f...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees to Canada

    Refugees to Canada. Good scenic shots, mountains, trains and wheat fields. 04:31:24 Title: "Great Four-Engine Freights Creep Up the Wilderness Grades" 04:31:28 Train, title: "Twilight" 04:32:00 Title: "Wheat" 04:32:35 Title: "Wheat - Dim Horizons Across Endless Prairie"

  18. Green leather wallet used by Jewish refugees

    1. Josef Pistiner family collection

    Green leather wallet used by Josef Pistiner or a family member. Josef left Berlin, Germany, with his parents Aron and Taube and brother Max in 1939 for the United States.

  19. Photographs of Jewish Refugees in Cyprus

    Consists of one photograph album containing 44 photographic prints of Jewish refugees in British camps in Cyprus. The photographs show the arrival and internment of the refugees, as well as daily life and organized protests of the internment. The album was presented to the American Jewish Committee by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus in September 2007.

  20. Suitcase used by German Jewish refugees

    1. Hanneliese Mendowsky family collection

    Suitcase used by Hanneliese Mendowsky when she left Breslau, Germany, for the United States before the war.