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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Illegal Ship

    Night-time shots of refugees with large packs boarding rubber boats. Crowded onto deck, rushing into hold and covering selves with tarpaulin when British airplane flies overhead. Airplane is an RAF : Lancaster. British warship (destroyer) sited, Brits jump from their decks to refugee ship. English and Hebrew sign "Haganah Ship Unafraid" and "Jewish" flag raised.

  2. Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

    Ship pulled in at port, people aboard wave. MS woman and baby are processed at desk. People filing off ship, boarding trucks, in bread line, eating outdoors, in English class, at leisure "playing" outside.

  3. Jewish refugee children from Belsen in London

    Jewish teenage survivors of Belsen arrive at refugee center in London. Children eating in dining hall, dancing the Hora outside, arriving at Red Cross building, in classes.

  4. Jews Land In Australia

    Huge ship arriving at Sydney's port with "700 Jewish migrants" aboard, waving from decks. CUs of people on board and on dock waving. Ledge of ship packed with people.

  5. Illegal ship

    Injured man helped by two Brits from ship, "The Four Freedoms." Pan of refugees on ship. Sick and tired refugees drooped on benches, holding their heads. Masses of people packed body to body, lying down on their decks. Injured person on litter being lifted from ship by crane. Chaos, disorder, everyone in close quarters.

  6. Passengers on the St. Louis

    CU "St Louis: Hamburg" written on ship's bow. LS ship from dock as ship enters harbor. Passengers walk down gangplank or are carried off on stretchers. Waving from dock. Boarding train.

  7. Illegal Ship

    VAR shots of people on board. Everyone goes below deck to hide from bombs. British Navy patrollers jump onto refugee boat. Refugee boys toss out fake sign "Karaco Adalia" and raise Star of David flag and banner: "Haganah Ship Unafraid."

  8. German occupation of Belgium; civilians, soldiers, refugees

    Life under occupation in Belgium: citizens and soldiers "share" the town. Belgian POWs, supervised by Belgian troops (?collaborators? They wear large white armbands. Belgian policeman also visible), work on a bridge. Women walk their bicylces across the bridge, following the soldiers' directions. Germans eating; inspecting weapons in a town square. Sunny day. Soldiers march on country road. Refugee family drives by. More refugees -- in horse-drawn carts, on foot, and pushing bicycles. A car rolls by, loaded with possessions and pushed by the men and boys of the family, while the women and a...

  9. French refugees; German convoy

    Refugees leaving town using various modes of transporation. Couples walking, women pushing prams, one pram has a rabbit in a cage atop. Horse-drawn carts with people and possessions in the back. One of the carts has a flat tire but continues anyway. A couple of cars, one with bicycles atop, stuffed so full of belongings that the passengers ride, stanidng, on the side bumpers. More shots of refugees moving slowyly down a road. Empty, destroyed town, dead horses in the street. Refugees on side of road, German Army trucks on the other. (Good sense of dislocation and movement.)

  10. German Army convoy

    Military and Red Cross trucks fill country lane. Prisoners marching. Nazis running in a city, checking IDs, directing traffic, etc. They check the papers of two Germans riding bicycles. Truck full of refugees' belongings. Tanks in country road.

  11. French refugees and POWs

    Refugee families with heavily loaded wagons cross in front of camera at end of town. Refugees, including children, push bicylces and baby carriages. Tanks pass by. Camera shoots from ground up toward soldiers atop tanks. The soldiers look and sometimes smile at camera. Germans search boarded-up shops, sprawl around city, taking over town. Brief inerior of soldier, asleep in a chair. French POWs entering and exiting building, being rushed down a street by German guard. A couple of civilians, including a woman, with the POWs. Various shots of POWS marching down road, with a tank and flowers g...

  12. Jewish Refugees in Czechoslovakia

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 728, Part 2. Release date, 12/14/1938. November 26-30, 1938. Jewish refugees in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. LS of field with round tents. CU of baby, rumpled man, woman by tub. Also, shots of men and women working at chores: sawing wood (cutting down tree), at water well, cooking. Refugee getting haircut and shave. Group near outdoor stove with little pots of water. Note: According to dope sheet, these are 360 Jews banished by Hungarian government and denied admittance by Czech authorities. They are in "no man's land" by the border. Newsreel footage also inc...

  13. 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...

  14. Captured German POWs; camp victims and survivors

    Mr. Dixon chronicles the progress of the 99th Chemical Mortar Battalion, primarily in Germany, includes captured German POWs, victims of concentration camp, and liberated former camp inmates most still in uniforms walking in line along the road. Trip to Paris Arc de Triomphe, Tomb of Unknown soldier. Group shot of battalion commanders, army vehicles in snow of courtyard going back to front. Trucks full of captured German POWs coming across Bailey bridge. MLS American tanks and other artillery firing in the Colmar pocket. Camouflaged guns, destruction. German Tiger tank, soldier points to ar...

  15. History of 303rd Field Artillery

    Col. Redding chronicles the progress of the 303rd Field Artillery, primarily in Germany, includes DPs, POWs, and camps for Russian and Polish refugees. Map of Marienbad. Footage of the spa town around May 5, 1945. Newspaper headlines: VE Day; "Churchill, King George Speak Today." GIs on lawn in front of hotel. Radio. Roads with released German POWs. Unit camps in field. Eating at table in field, setting up generator, setting up tents, writing home, boxing up souvenirs, kegs of beer come in. 12:26:16 Nuremberg Stadium, WS. (May 29 sent to Le Havre, France), Red Cross entertainment in field, ...

  16. Zeilsheim DP Camp

    Life at Zeilsheim DP camp (a small German town converted into a DP center), including a protest march and Robinson family members in various settings. All footage shot in camp. Fay and Alice play in snow, houses in BG. Joseph (born in Zeilsheim on August 25, 1946) in the baby carriage. Children play near house. Children and adults march, carrying flag of Star of David, in celebration of Lag B'Omer. Robinson family, including parents Ephraim and Sarah and children Fay, Alice, and Joseph, walk past sign "Zeilsheim Assembly Center, UNRRA Team." Robinson family entertains visitors. Children pla...

  17. Jewish Extremists in Haifa; deported to Cyprus

    LS Haifa harbor. British soldiers guard court building. Extremists accused of blowing up railroad brought to trial; out of truck, handcuffed, men and women. Illegal immigrants arrive in Haifa on the "Henrietta Szold" ship. Ship into dock. Women and children helped off boat. Barbed wire enclosure. Man kisses ground, put on ship to Cyprus.

  18. Illegal Immigrants

    British soldiers guarding groups of refugees. Refugees smile and wave at camera. Refugees dancing. Refugees mill about with bundles. Tired refugee on ground. Group of young refugees sitting, singing. Guard brings refugee on beach. Refugee ship (SS Susanna) anchored on beach. British soldiers on beach. More shots of ship. Life boat with refugees' goods.

  19. Exodus Jews in Germany

    Refugees washing clothes, sewing, near quonset huts and tents. Couple poses with young child. CU boy eating bread. Good view of tents. VAR CUs of refugees. Barbed wire enclosed camp. More general views of camp, people walking, talking. Nice CU of boy wearing a hat with "Exodus 47." Train station, British medical personel load ambulance. Refugees leave train, go onto trucks. British soldiers guard road, trucks pass. Soldier guards camp. More CUs of refugees.

  20. Exodus Jews in France

    INTs of refugees sleeping on cots, of floor, rough conditions (too dark). Refugees sleeping on cots outdoors, in trucks (police trucks). Shot of harbor. "Ocean Vigour," the "Runnymede Park," and the "Empire Valour" in harbor. Small boats go up to ship. Shots of refugees on ship (Runnymede) with barbed wire. Sailors on ship, more refugees. French Red Cross on shore, give water to refugees.