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  1. 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 ...

  2. Refugees/POWs; VE Day in London; postwar Nuremberg

    Railroad. Entrance to bunkers. Piles of ammunition near Leipzig (wired to blow all the ammunition when captured by the Americans). Sign: "Munitionsabhol = kommandos hier melden." CU of German eagle with swastika. Tanks. Liberated Russian POWs waving at camera. German POWs guarded by US soldiers. Repatriated English soldiers. French refugees walking down road. German prisoners enter POW cage, march across shallow river. 01:22:13 Sir Winston Churchill in his office. Saluting crowd from car. LS of Big Ben. Crowd on streets of London, running towards passing car, waving flags. British soldier (...

  3. 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...

  4. Retinoscopy instruments with box brought with Jewish refugees

    1. Bielski family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn560782
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) c: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) d: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) e: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)

    Box containing opthalmic instrument (opthalmoskop) and instructions 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.

  5. Poster concerning volunteer solicitation for the aide of Jewish refugees.

    1. Jewish American ephemera and archival collection

    Poster concerning volunteer solicitation for the aide of Jewish refugees. (Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal, National Refugee Service, Refugee Work in Chicago).

  6. Refugees, liberation, and an illegal ship (some staged)

    This is a compilation reel, the title on the reel reads: "Jewish Life in Budapest", however, this title does not correspond to anything seen on the reel, except a few seconds of unidentified amateur footage, which may have been shot in Hungary. This footage contains a number of scenes from a fiction (staged) film, with Hebrew subtitles, that indicate the year as 1946 to 1948. There are also a number of scenes in concentration camps (staged or liberation: unable to confirm at time of record entry), scenes on boats, people fleeing, being captured, etc. Shots from behind, crowds marching in st...

  7. Nameplate for fishing boat Stjernen used to rescue Jewish refugees

    Nameplate: for fishing vessal STJERNEN [The Star] that was pressed into service to move Jewish refugees from Denmark to Sweden over a route established between the Danish isle of Moen and southern Sweden. Some years after the war, the boat was laid up and dismantled for scrap. Because of its historic role in 1943, the nameplate was saved.

  8. British Pathé (Unissued/Unused) -- Refugees are given clothing and food

    Titles read: "ALLIES FEED AND CLOTHE REFUGEES FROM WAR ZONES". Refugees (probably from Eastern Europe) carry bundles on their backs and heads walk to and from a building guarded by soldiers (unknown location). CUs of refugee adults and children outside the building. INT, women and children are given clothing. Refugees sit at long tables and eat. General view of refugees milling about outside the building.

  9. Cardboard cover used to hold identication by Jewish refugees

    1. Josef Pistiner family collection

  10. Switzerland and Jewish refugees: Reports by JUNA and other material

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection of material on the fate of Jews and Switzerland during the Nazi era, comprises several deposits, the first three of which share the same provenance, the other two being unrelated. Parts of this archive were used to create the three dossiers in this collection.The three dossiers, all produced in 1955, and apparently emanating from the same source, have been produced in the same format. Namely, an introductory essay on a topic punctuated by references to related transcript documents (Be...

  11. Leather briefcase used to hold family papers by Jewish refugees

    1. Henry and Rose Basch collection

    Briefcase used by Henry and Rose Basch when they lived as refugees in Shanghai, China. They used the valise to store documents related to their efforts to get family members out of Nazi-controlled Europe. Henry and Rose, originally from Poland, fled Germany to escape the antisemitic policies of the Nazi government, probably in the late 1930s.

  12. Bomb damage in Italy; Italian refugees; British troops; German prisoners

    04:08:10 NR-85 Army Pictorial Service - Film Report (Silent) Effects of Bombing by USAAF in Italy, October 6, 1943. VS, Italian refugee women and children in flight, enter town, carrying their small belongings. CU, sign at improvised bridge: George Washington Bridge. LS, US Army truck moves through bomb-wrecked city passing ruined church and much debris. CU, religious statues in church. AV, town showing Reggio Canal, ruined factories and building; bomb craters in parts of the city along the RR yard and in ancient amphitheatre. LS, ruined railroad yard and demolished bridge. 04:12:59 NR-76 A...

  13. Leather and metal box owned by German Jewish refugees

    1. Lewin and Levi family collection

    Leather and metal box presumably brought with Simon and Violet Lewin, their daughter Marion, and Violet's son, Rolf, who fled Berlin, Germany, in late December 1938 for the United States.

  14. Metal needle case with cap brought with German Jewish refugees

    1. Lewin and Levi family collection

    Metal needle case with removable cap brought with Simon and Violet Lewin, their daughter Marion, and Violet's son, Rolf, who fled Berlin, Germany, in late December 1938 for the United States.United States.

  15. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews In the file: - Correspondence with people and institutions in the United States and Great Britain, the Red Cross and others regarding Jewish refugees and rescuing Jews.

  16. Lists of Ichud members who are refugees in Switzerland

    1. P.7- Archive of Marc Jarblum, Zionist Leader and one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in France, 1941-1967

    Lists of Ichud members who are refugees in Switzerland Also in the file: Addresses of Jewish organizations and personalities and receipts from the Swiss post.

  17. List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Romania

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Romania The list is organized alphabetically and includes name, place of birth, age, occupation and current place of residence; list compiled by the Committee for Relief of the War Stricken Jewish Population ]sponsored by] the World Jewish Congress in Geneva.

  18. List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Vilna

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Vilna The list is organized alphabetically and includes name, place of birth, age, occupation and current place of residence; list compiled by the Committee for Relief of the War Stricken Jewish Population [sponsored by] the World Jewish Congress in Geneva; Included in the file: A list containing names of Jewish refugees in Vilna who are not originally from Poland.