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  1. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    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...

  2. Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt / Terezin

    This version includes scenes from the children's production of "Brundibar." Excerpts of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian clothing but are euphemistically called residents ["Bewohner"] instead of inmates. They look well-dressed and well-fed and keep smiling. No SS guards or other armed Germans are shown. With En...

  3. The future of European Jewry

    From opening credits of film: "The story of Europe's Jews Today as told by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Herbert H. Lehman, Edward M.M. Warburg, Harold F. Linder, Moses A. Leavitt. This film has been made possible by the active guidance and counsel of Al Paul Lefton and the cooperation of numerous persons and organizations including: United Jewish Appeal, South African Jewish Appeal, United Jewish Relief Agencies of Canada, News of the Day, Paramount News, Film-Polski, Decca Reocrds, The American Federation of Musicians, Larry Adler, and others." Leaders of the JDC convene in New York City to disc...

  4. UN appeal for WWII refugees; DP camps

    From opening credits of the film: "United Nations Film Board presents...Produced by the Office of Public Information of the International Refugee Organization, A specialized agency of the United Nations." UN appeal for WWII Refugees, an "inside look" at life in a DP camp. A day in the life of a DP.

  5. Creation of modern Israeli state

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: A day in the life of a Histadrut worker, people taking care of different aspects of life on a farm. View of fields, new buildings going up, young man working in the fields, woman feeding chickens, more people in the field, people from different countries "a new society rooted in the old soil of Palestine", view of unidentified city. Purim festival in Tel Aviv, parade, floats, dancing in the streets. Guns, tanks, explosions. Symbolic march to Masada, view from the top of the mountain, traditional song and dance. Ben Gurion at meeting (no sync sound). Peop...

  6. German civilians forced to view atrocities at cinema

    Crowds of German civilians waiting, then entering cinema "Scala Lichtspiel" under compulsion. Some look disturbed as they exit. Pan, crowd of well-dressed people queuing in front of a building. A few British soldiers tend to the crowd, containing them. Another large group of people exit the building, walking past the waiting masses. MCU faces as they walk past the camera. Some smoke pipes, some with hats. Pan, group standing at opposite side of entrance doorway. Large crowd pushing to get in and out of the building. View from inside doorway, sign reading SCALA LICHTSPIELE. View of people en...

  7. Children at Belsen

    Multiple shots of a set of three swings, children playing on swings, British troops push the swings. CU of (unnamed) soldier pushing swing. MCU of children crowded on jeep, moving through camp. CU of boy's face as he sits on the hood of the jeep. Children eating soup. Shot as children file from left to right, given biscuits and chocolate. Russian Jewish woman (former internee, wearing Red Cross uniform) ringing bell as children, smiling, swarm past her, entering doorway. CU of woman (unnamed). Row of six swings set up by REME. Children playing on swings. Two close up shots of young girls sm...

  8. Bergen-Belsen, nine days after liberation

    Interior of hospital ward, drawing on wall of "Tiger" tank passing over barbed wire. Camera pans down, child lying in hospital bed. Chalking FULL on wall. Stretcher removed from back of ambulance; one of the stretcher bearers is member of Quaker Relief Service team RS100. German orderlies take stretcher into hospital. "Contaminated" drawn on ambulance doors. CU of woman's shoulder badge combining Red X and Order of St. John symbols. Ambulance being unloaded in BG. Female relief worker, Miss Russell Smith, drives "clean" ambulance off screen right. TYPHUS sign at right. German medics in whit...

  9. Unloading stretchers; digging graves

    Ambulance enters camp. Sign reading DDT CENTER. Women and men unloading stretchers from ambulance. Pan, cemetery, men digging graves, crosses erected. Tents. Doctor and patients walking about. LS camp, watchtower, people walking, some with shovels.

  10. Women and babies

    Women in hospital. Babies being baptized. Women laughing, breast feeding. CU babies.

  11. German officers; Allied POWs

    German officers and others talking, smoking. Forest and barracks in BG. LS Allied POWs with KG stamped on their backs.

  12. Concentration camp atrocities

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans: "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism.] Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visiting the camp; demonstrations of torture; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; corpses; crematoria Ziegenheim: liberated men; a typical day's ration of food Kaunitz:...

  13. Concentration camp atrocities

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism]. Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Arnstadt: tents in camp; corpses Belsen: survivors; corpses; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; Josef Kramer; interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials Gardelegen: corpses; i...

  14. Quisling's trial in Norway; Execution of German spies

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Report on War Crimes, including shots of the London meeting of the investigating commission, the opening of Quisling's trial in Norway, and the execution of two German spies by the US 9th Army.

  15. German antisemitic Propaganda

    Notes from NCJF documentation. This NCJF compilation demonstrates the overt use of film to denigrate Jews. All three excerpts emphasize exotic Jewish physical types and modes of dress. 1. A segment from "Dr. Frank's Journey Through Poland," a 1939 travelogue: footage of the Jewish district (Cracow); references to Cracow as a once great city now overwhelmed by Jewish types (2 minutes). VS, MSs, MCUs and CUs of city life, and 'ethnic' looking faces. 2. A 1940/41 German newsreel segment with staged sequences of Jewish storekeepers caught hoarding food and cheating local Poles (2.5 minutes). 3....

  16. Ceremony at the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror

    MLS, panning shots of buildings, various architectural details. MLS, panning Tyn Church from across a large town square. MCU, local girl in traditional dress poses with a man in uniform. Ceremony at the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror located at the Church of Saint Cyril and Saint Method (previously called the Carlo Boromeo Church). MS, large group of people gathered, men and women in line formation, young men in various uniforms carry various flags. Older men in civilian dress are also in formation. MLS, large group of nurses, in white uniforms, flanked by soldiers i...

  17. Displaced Persons, Norwegian relief efforts

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation, cribbed from narration presented by Cedric Hardwicke: "This film describes the life of the "hard core" displaced persons in a village in South Germany. They were the handicapped, the old, and the victims of polio that no country wanted. For them no jobs were made available and their lives seemed hopeless until the Norwegian government allowed small numbers to immigrate and settle. The rest of the film shows two people: one woman whose husband and two children had TB but were rehabilitated and were able to return to normal family life, and a blind man who...

  18. Nuremberg: ruins of the city; IMT

    Excerpt from the film beginning with opening titles: "This film is made available for television by the Department of the Army in the public interest. Europe 1945." VS of destruction, rubble, etc. incurred in the European theater of war. Men, women, children, babies, walking aimlessly through piles of rubble. German intertitles list the major Nazi Party leaders, all on trial at Nuremberg. VS, scenes of the courtroom, prosecutors/judges speaking, translators in booth. Pan of International Military Tribunal. VS, crowds, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party rallies, large crowds running in the streets, Hi...

  19. Report from Nuremberg

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Report from Nuremberg. A chart illustrates the NSDAP organization. Defense lawyers raise questions of translation, etc. A discussion break for the accused and counsel. Robert Jackson's opening prosecution address. Concentration camp orphans fly to England to spend Christmas. They enjoy a welcoming meal at the airport.

  20. Searching for food at Belsen after liberation

    Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. More shots of camp: smoke, tents, cooking fires, people wandering. MS through barbed wire fence where bin full of potato peelings is tipped over, two women look through waste for scraps. One Hungarian and one British sentry observe as female internees reach through fence for scraps; guards kick remnants towards them.