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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Exodus Protest

    HA group protesting. VAR shots of signs, speakers. CU shot with banner:"Bevin! We will out live your reactionary policies!" Clapping audience. General shot of protest. Protesters parade. Banner: "Exodus in Hamburg a mark of cain for England." More good banners (English and Hebrew/Yiddish). Crowd waves fists, good banners visible. More close shots and speakers (Marc Jarblum speaks, Josef Rosensaft next to him).

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Kindertransport: German Jewish Kids in England

    First boatload of 200 German Jewish children arriving from Holland coming down gangplank each wearing tag around neck which is checked. Good CUs as first girls then boys come down. Photographers and journalists take pictures. Shot of ship "Prague." Children board buses for Dovercourt holiday camp. 01:03:34 Arrival at camp, kids carry in their luggage. INT, kids playing ping pong. Children eating in dining hall. Good CUs.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish boys on English farm

    Flint Hall Farm maintained by YMCA agreed to take 50 Jewish boys. Boys lead harnessed work horses from farm stables. Out in field they are taught to plough as instructor (in suit and hat) watches. Good CUs. Boy throws out feed for cattle from back of cart. Boy being given instruction on milking of cow.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews seek help in Paris

    Comite Central d'Assistance aux Refugies Juifs, 5, Rue de la Durance, Paris. Branch of HICEM and American organization HIAS. Shot down along desks as committee's employees assist refugees with legal advice and other issues. Family group seated in chairs waiting their turn. Baby in woman's lap and two young girls. MLS of mostly men standing in line waiting to be seen, then MS and CU. MLS of committee offices ("consistoire Israel...") as people come out and walk past camera. Outside in FG is open gate in BG two men walk toward building, ring bell. Men walking down sidewalk, urban scene.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish refugees in Amsterdam

    01:18:54 December 3, 1938, the Christian population organized street collections for Jewish refugees. Shots of collectors at work on street. CU of collection tin. Jewish men walk on busy street (bikes, cars, streetcars) and enter small hotel, shot of men leaving. Same men with suitcases go to doorway. LS "Beurs Voor den Diamanth" (Amsterdam Diamond Bourse). 01:20:35 Jewish open air market as people buy and sell. Book stalls, fabrics, food. Newspaper on wall "Ten Bate Voor de Joodsche Vluchtelingen." Good shots of people, women chatting. LS EXT kosher poultry shop ("Kip Haan"). INT women hav...

  6. German anti-American propaganda film

    Statue of Liberty shots, FDR speaks, troops and mounted police battle strikers in various locations, wounded are picked up, rioters arrested. Workers smash windows in Detroit, coal strike in Pittsburgh and farmers dump milk during milk strike. Another large protest rally then CU of stills of American "Jews" including Major Rothschild, Untermeyer, Schiff, Frankfurter, Lehman, and (?)La Guardia. FDR speaking, footage from film "Grapes of Wrath," camps for refugees of Dust Bowl, shots of slums, footage of gangster Dillinger, other criminals, and Eleanor Roosevelt as fashion model.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish Relief Committees

    Woburn House, Bloomsbury, London. Headquarters of the Jewish Relief Committees. Interior, dark, big busy room, older men sitting at tables, women too waiting to be seen, people asking questions. Stock shots of Orientation signs in German on doorways. Refugees in line at desk to receive immediate dispensation of funds from Mr. Nathan (according to MoT card) for needy including women with infants. MS and CU of those waiting and of money and coins on table. 02:33:23 MS Mr. I.B. Davidson of Jewish Aid Committee speaks of enormous cost of helping refugees, thanks non-Jewish friends who have cont...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews, refugee relief, England

    A refugee couple being interviewed in German at Woburn House (staged). In BG can see others being assisted. They present passport documents. MCU of couple as husband speaks, CU of him as he speaks. Woman shyly stares down at table. Both speak German? CU profile of agent providing assistance. Two women processing documents concerning boarding and lodging of refugees.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Lisbon

    EXT street scene LS in Lisbon and EXT of American Export Lines building. INT sign for passenger and express freight services. Pan down to line of refugees waiting in line trying to get tickets, several shots. People at counter filling out forms, American flag in BG. CU of men filling out papers. MCU of group of men and women looking anxious at counter.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Caldas da Rainha

    Shot of Caldas da Rainha (30 miles from Lisbon), residence for all refugees living in Portugal, many of whom were Jewish. VS of cattle fair. 02:45:32 Refugee works garden, woman spreads wash. EXT of Cafe Boccage, then packed INT [cafe is meant to replicate artists' cafe in Montparnasse, "La Rotonde"]. INT of Hotel Lisbonse where refugees meet to talk, play cards, sit on sofas, and chat. At 02:46:14 is a side view of Isaac Margosis at the extreme right in the glasses talking to the people playing cards. VS. Quick EXT shot of Jews leaving improvised synagogue as young boy looks at doorway.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees board ship in Lisbon

    Large crowd of people wave to those aboard "Serpa Pinto." Ship waits for 1500 children from France. At last minute, Germans do not let children leave France. Most are Jews and were assisted by American charitable organizations. Only 40 of these children get to Portugal. Men at table check passenger documents prior to boarding. Children are assisted up gangway; boy and girl at document table. More people, including more children, board ship, go up gangway toward camera. Good shots of children. LS departure of "Serpa Pinto" against sun. People waving from ship. LS Boarding of American Export ...

  12. Refugees in Transylvania

    200,000 refugees from Ukraine entering Transylvania, fleeing "Red Hordes." Everybody brings livestock. Large open field, with many people of different regions with wagons and livestock.

  13. Agro-Joint in Russia

    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...

  14. Bricha: Jewish refugees leave Europe for Palestine

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. A clean copy must be ordered directly from NCJF. Refugees getting on board buses and trains, UNRRA officials help. Refugees waiting at the border at Nachod, a village on the Czech/Polish border. Reception center at Bratislava. 11:07:25 Groups of DPs (Bricha Underground) crossing the Alps from Gnadenwald, Austria to Italy in February 1948. Many shots of walking up paths, climbing slopes, jumping over streams, sheltering under a bridge. Arriving at foot of mountain, getting instructions.

  15. Liberation of Ebensee concentration camp: caring for sick survivors; crematorium

    (color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of Jesus. Town street scene, men walking, guest-house. CU, baby in carriage. Mountains. Good views of Ebensee concentration camp, electrified barbed wire fence, barracks. Men carry large pots of soup. Survivors walk past camera in striped uniforms, one is quite young. CUs, survivors, some with red triangles, eating. Pan, emaciated inmates, some lying on stretchers. American soldiers with the US Air Force and USAF ambulances in the BG. Soldiers (some African-Americans) help the sick on stretchers into ambu...

  16. Evian Conference on Refugees

    With voiceover. EXT, buildings and homes overlooking Lake Geneva. Architecture of the Hotel Royal, the conference center for the committee. CU, Myron C. Taylor, the spokesman for the United States and the initial president of the committee, walking with a group of men including James McDonald (seen clearly at 06:57:58 - the tall man with white hair). French senator Henry Béringer and Great Britain’s Lord Winterton outside the Hotel Royal. Pan around the large conference room and delegates. Taylor addresses the committee members.

  17. Agro-Joint colony of Mulatov

    LS of hospital run by a German Jewish refugee doctor. An intertitle notes that over 112 refugee physicians were placed in Russia during 1935. MLS of electrical tractor being operated (devised by one of colonists). CU of Morris Troper talking to a man. More shots of the tractor at work.

  18. Polish Refugees Leave for Palestine

    350 Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine, (no date, originally reviewed March 27, 1944) INTs, Teheran railroad station. Polish refugees on platform bustle about as some bid farewell to departing friends. Persian/Arabic inscriptions. Pan, wall of newsstand/booth. Dolly shot, relatives and friends bid one another farewell from train windows; along railcars, more crowded, various men in uniform. Belongings on platform. Men, women, and children mill about, looking anxious and excited, some dressed well, some with hats (mix of Middle Eastern and Baltic looks). CU, native porter salutes in...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    01:05:52 In Jerusalem, Government House, residence and office of High Commissioner. 01:06:13 Sentry at guardhouse of Residence. View from guardhouse tower. 01:06:43 Courtyard of the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem. Scenes of the Old City from roof of Museum showing walls around Damascus. 01:07:01 Italian General Consulate in Jerusalem. Jaffa road, looking north in Jerusalem. Changing Army guard inside Old City gates, Banco Di Roma in BG. Street scenes in Old City, praying at the Western Wall. 01:08:16 Market scenes at Bethlehem. CUs, Arab peasants at market, buying fruit. 01:08:57 Western W...

  20. Sudeten crisis; Munich accord; Nazis threaten

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 731, Part 1. Release date, 12/26/1938. German military power. Mobilization in Austria. Schuschnigg gives weak Nazi salute. Mobilization in Sudetenland, President Benes. digging trenches; country folk; woman with gas mask and baby. Chamberlain goes to Munich while the English drill and prepare for war. Chamberlain returns with "settlement of Czech problem". Smashed windows in Czechoslovakia prior to Kristallnacht. Jewish refugees (German citizens) in makeshift camp near Brunn, Czechoslovakia after being banned from areas ceded to German Reich. FDR and advisor...