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  1. 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.

  2. UJA/JDC appeal for relief for Jewish DPs

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Against a background of authentic newsreel footage showing the condition of the remaining survivors, the audience is urged to give to the campaign. The funds will allow these people to immigrate, either to Palestine, or the United States, where they can resettle. 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. Remnants of Warsaw Ghetto ruins, DP survivors, people in rags, walking aimlessly. Concentration ca...

  3. Immigration to Israel

    Notes from NCJF documentation: A group of people await the arrival of relatives and friends at the dock in Haifa. While they wait they share their stories. They represent the many different groups who came to Israel and the various and difficult adjustment problems they all faced, from those shared by the Yemenite Jews to those who came from Europe. The film is introduced by blowing the shofar, marking the beginning of the year 5721. "THEODORE HERZL" ship docks in Haifa, Israel. Immigrants getting off ship with nothing but "a lump in their throat and hope in their heart." People waiting for...

  4. DP camps

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: The film provides a rare look inside DP camps, the crowded living conditions, the lack of activity, the new generation born in the camps, and the attempt at creating some normalcy under difficult conditions. Smiling children eating. Training dentists, lab technicians. People arriving at unidentified DP camp, waiting in line, loading belongings onto truck, truck leaves, people waving. Long lines of people, uniformed man directs traffic. People waiting, some sitting on suitcases, another truck pulls up, people get on with belongings. Buildings in BG. Train...

  5. Bricha: Jewish refugees leave Europe for Palestine; Ebensee camp at liberation; Belsen DP camp

    11:00:12 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 Jewish refugees leaving Europe for Palestine. 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. 11:18:27 (color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of J...

  6. The Bible

    CBS News correspondent Alexander Kendrick interviews the first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion on the Bible and his individual religious ideology.

  7. UJA relief for refugees; Israel

    Introduced and narrated by Cedric Hardwicke. UJA appeal for relief for new refugees, immigrants to Israel. This segment of the Adventures in Freedom series focuses on daily life in Jerusalem, both religious and secular. Screen credits at end: "Support the United Jewish Appeal on behalf of the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Commi​t​tee United Service for New Americans ​Through Your Local Campaign​"

  8. History of the UJA

    Part 1. Film depicts the history of the UJA. Still of Hitler, Nazis marching in rally, burning of books (at 05:41:30), wearing yellow star. Man sitting, girl with doll, Herschel Grynspan, Kristallnacht, formation of the UJA, newspaper headlines. Warsaw ghetto footage, Warsaw ghetto uprising (stills), man speaking at desk, declaration of the State of Israel. David Ben Gurion reading.

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

    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. 04:00:36 Shots from behind, crowds marching in streets with suitcases. Smaller group of men and women in forests, a child is helped up a snowy hill. Women helped aboard a boat (presumably to safety). LS of boat, crowded conditions. Boat moving, man with binoculars, hair blowing in the...

  10. Belsen: Kramer; corpses

    CUs, camp commandant Josef Kramer under armed guard. Canadian military soldier with a cap, Jack Marcovitch, on Kramer's left side. SS men unloading naked corpses (women) from truck into a pit. SS women on truck with corpses, dragging naked corpses to pit. CUs of bodies.

  11. Belsen: Medics moving typhus patients

    Medics loading trucks with people suffering from typhus. Red Cross truck. Women walking in a forest.

  12. Television advertisement for the Jewish Chautauqua Society about Terezin

    Television promotion for the Jewish Chautauqua Society. Murals of children's art created at Terezin concentration camp. Narration of the Butterfly poem, images of butterflies. Cut to stills of Terezin camp, including Block A and barracks. "Stand not idly by plight and poverty and oppression, but love thy neighbor as thyself."

  13. Israel and Ben Gurion

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: MS of a man. Negev, barracks, people eating. Ben Gurion and a man. Stills of young Ben Gurion. Interview with Ben Gurion. Plowing with horse, VS tilling, sowing, reaping, working the land. Rowboats, people on shore. Laying pipe with crane. More of interview with Ben Gurion. Camp footage, interview continues. Ben Gurion proclaims state (no sync-voiceover). Cheering crowd, children circle with flags, tank plows through building, digging trenches. Ben Gurion inspecting troops, Navy marching, Army marching, women soldiers marching. Graves. Gates of Israel op...

  14. Israel, Jewish refugees, relief efforts

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Animated stills, followed by live action. CU, smiling woman. LS, people on ship waving, old woman eating, child, doctor. Man hammering, training cobblers, blacksmiths. Refugees at dock. Tractor plowing. Irrigation trench. House with Star of David on roof. Construction of building, pouring metal. Soldiers on horseback. Railways, building a road, more animated stills.

  15. UJA relief efforts

    Title card reads, "UJA Report from Israel." Immigrants wave from a ship's deck while the narrator explains that these are Holocaust survivors arriving in Israel from Europe. Survivors disembark in Haifa as a crowd waits on the dock behind a fence. People sort through luggage and other belongings. A man stacks blankets and a woman searches for her baby carriage among several others. Items are loaded onto a truck which then takes immigrants to a camp. Dramatic CU of International Herald Tribune headlines: "Heavy Burden Of Immigrants Strains Israel," "Situation Called Explosive,"(article writt...

  16. St. Louis, refugees

    The JDC produced this film to record what it thought would be a successful effort to save over 900 Jews, including 200 children, by sailing them from Nazi Germany to Cuba on the ship the St. Louis in 1939. When Cuba refused to allow the passengers to land, the ship sailed to the Miami area where the U.S. government also barred the refugees' entrance. The St. Louis languished in the waters around Cuba while the JDC searched for countries to accept the refugees. Finally, some European countries accepted the refugees and the St. Louis returned to Europe. Tragically, many of the refugees ended ...

  17. 1939 Day of German Art; Hitler and high Nazi officials

    Archival footage in color from 01:10:19 to 01:27:32 shows amateur 16mm film footage of the Day of German Art filmed by Hans Feierabend in Munich in 1939. Includes scenes of Philipp Bouhler (in glasses) seated among Nazi dignitaries for viewing parade from 01:23:59 - 01:24:02 and 01:24:09 - 01:24:12, Albert Speer appears at 01:24:03, and Himmler and Goebbels.

  18. Five Cities

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: This rare film document captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Vilna. Lively narration and music accompany film sequences of people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work, at play, in the synagogue, and in school. Vilna's famous landmarks-the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute-are among the film's highlights.

  19. JDC: Relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes from NCJF documentation: "This is the story of 2,500,000 Jews in Europe and Moslem lands on the road to survival." "Against the background of authentic footage showing rescue missions from Europe, Cyprus, Aden, the film shows the importance of aid to the new immigrants. The dramatic effect of the poor living conditions in contrast with the hopefulness of their new life in Israel serves as a powerful message to the audience." Trains with Jewish DPs leaving Germany for Israel (reference to trains leading to concentration camps). People saying goodbye (but many are still left behind afte...

  20. Jewish families pose for camera; street scenes in Humenne

    Reel 2. Shows families (the Sommers, the Kleins, the Grosmans) in Humenne. Man greets the camera. Girls at play, dancing in a circle, including Zuzana Sermerova (b. 1924). Family group poses. CU sign, "Garage." Two men peel potatoes. Roof of garage building. Family members pose in front of gate. CU Judith Klein (sister of Bernard and Emery) in a baby carriage. Group of kids wave and walk to camera, CUs. Men walk to camera, one takes off suspenders, walks towards camera. Bernard and Emery sit in the grass with the movie camera case. CU, Judith in carriage. Family in garden; in front of house...