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  1. JDC summer camp in Germany for child survivors from DP camps and children’s homes

    EXT A group splashes in the lake. Children and teenagers walk past in a rough line. More children, tents, and trees in BG. Several girls emerge from the entrance to a tent. Flag pole against the sky with two flags, one appears to be the flag of Israel. Several boys heading a ball to each other. INT girls walk to and sit down at tables set with bowls and mugs. Girls eat stew. CU boys pretend to sleep in bunks, then start a pillow fight. Girls smile at a man beside them, with his back to a window. EXTs bushes and buildings on the shore of a lake in the mountains near the summer camp.

  2. JDC supplies unloaded for refugees in Cyprus

    Dockworkers unload relief supplies (most likely in port of Famagusta) for Jewish refugees held in British detainee camps on Cyprus (from August 1946 to February 11, 1949). The Joint provided food, medical, and welfare supplies and other services for detainees. Two men wheel a box filled with fish. Boxes offloaded from a ship by a crane, the boxes lowered. Boxes of fish are loaded on hand trucks by dockworkers and carted away. Men move a large wooden board labeled “AJDC 832 CYPRUS”. Workers carry large sacks on their shoulders. Ship in BG. CU of fish in open box as it is wheeled past, truck ...

  3. JDC vice-chairman Moses Leavitt visits DP camps in 1947; Lag B'Omer celebration

    Original, out-of-sequence, private footage documenting the field trip by Moses Leavitt (JDC’s Executive Vice Chairman from 1947-1965) in April/May 1947 to DP camps in the American Zone in Germany with stops in Austria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. 01:00:10 At a displaced persons camp in Germany, EXT pan along a path lined with trees, children playing soccer. Crowd of DPs gather, children sitting in the front, waving at something off camera. Several young children are guided by two women up the path, they stand, some holding hands, as a woman arranges them. 01:01:13 INT dark room wit...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. Jean B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1919, one of five children. She recalls her Zionism; teacher training in Israel; visiting home in summer 1939; German invasion; ghettoization in 1940; helping to create ghetto schools; producing music and dance performances (she sings a song); her parents' death from starvation; arrival of Austrian Jews; round-ups and deportations; hiding with her brother and sister during the final liquidation; her brother's capture; going to the trains with her sister, seeking her brother; transport to Auschwitz; losing her will to live aft...

  7. Jean B. Rosensaft photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depictiong the Wiesbaden displaced persons camp and the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation.

  8. Jean C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean C., who was born in France in 1908. He recalls his family had been in France for many generations; his prewar position as director of the Minister of the Interior's cabinet; military service when Germany invaded; demobilization; living in Carcassonne; marriage to a Catholic in 1940; their daughter's birth; arrest and imprisonment; transfer to Drancy; joining a group building an escape tunnel; their denunciation in November 1943; being shot at to scare him into revealing information; train deportation; jumping from the train; assistance from local villagers and ra...

  9. Jean C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dr. Jean C., who worked as an auxiliary physician at Gurs from September 1940 through the end of June 1941. He recounts serving in Pau in the French military; volunteering to work at Gurs; a high mortality rate due to lack of medicine, food, and heating; the contrast to good conditions and food provided for the guards and other staff; observing harsh treatment and beatings; the important aid provided to the prisoners by the Quakers; musical performances in the hospital by German Jewish prisoners who had brought instruments; a mass deportation from Gurs in the beginnin...

  10. Jean Demoustier

    Retrato de delegado da Cruz Vermelha (Francesa ou Belga) durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

  11. Jean Demoustier

    Delegado da Cruz Vermelha (Francesa ou Belga) durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

  12. Jean F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean F. who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1924. She recalls a happy childhood despite prevalent antisemitism; warnings from German refugees; German invasion in 1939; immediate arrests and shootings of Jews; ghettoization; her selection for transport to Gleiwitz in March 1942; slave labor in an ammunition factory; a death march to a train in January 1945; and escape from the train in Czechoslovakia. Mrs. F. describes a village woman's efforts to hide them; arrest and imprisonment in Prague; transfer to Theresienstadt; and liberation by the Red Cross. She recounts he...

  13. Jean H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean H., who was born in Danzig, Germany in 1920. She describes family and community life during the 1930s, noting the integration of Jews and non-Jews before 1933; the strong German identity of her father and the rest of her relatives; the beginning of anti-Jewish legislation, which prompted the Jewish community to establish its own schools; her involvement in a Jewish youth group until 1936; increasingly violent displays of antisemitism; and the general deterioration of the Jewish situation. She relates hearing stories of concentration camps in Germany and recalls t...

  14. Jean Haas photograph

    One photograph of Jean Haas, his twin brother Pierre, and their little sister Jacqueline. They are in swimming attire and the photograph is dated as August 20, 1943. Pierre is wearing his mother's glasses. This photograph was taken while the family was living with false Aryan papers in Couzon Mont d' Or, France.

  15. Jean I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean I., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1939. His first memory is of hiding in a castle with his mother and grandmother and sixty other Jews in May 1942 with assistance from the underground. He recalls their move to Durbuy because it was dangerous to be with a large group; attending school; receiving ration cards from the mayor; hiding in a convent when locals warned them of danger; attending mass in the convent; housing retreating Germans in their home in September 1944; liberation by British and United States troops in October 1944; their return to Antwerp in J...

  16. Jean Jones collection

    The collection consists of wooden toys, correspondence, newspapers, photographs, and booklets relating to the experiences of Jean Jones in Iowa, who received them from her German pen pal, Irmgard Richter, whose parents were teachers in Berlin.

  17. Jean K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean K., who was born in 1918 in Vilnius, Poland (presently Lithuania). She recounts her sister's birth; attending Zionist meetings; studying business; Soviet occupation; marriage in 1940; her son's birth in 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; the shooting of her mother, sister and grandparents; her father's illness and death; a round-up in September 1943; separation from her husband and child (she never saw them again); deportation to Kaiserwald; slave labor in an AEG factory; assistance from fellow prisoners after a severe whipping; transfer to Stuffhof in 1944, t...

  18. Jean L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean L., who was born in Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's emigration to Paris in 1936 due to antisemitism; their strong socialist commitment; German invasion; joining the Resistance; brief incarceration in Drancy; participating in armed resistance; living under false papers; arrest on April 22, 1943; incarceration in Fresnes; transfer to Struthof on July 10, 1943; deportation to Birkenau in January 1944; a privileged assignment to Canada Kommando with help from a former friend; surviving a selection because of his status as a political prisoner; organized resis...

  19. Jean M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jean M., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland, in 1922 to a well-established family. She relates attending school in Marijampole? and Stanislav; anti-Semitic incidents; German invasion; forced labor; German humiliation of the Jews; her brother's death at age fourteen in a labor camp; transfer to the Podhajce ghetto; her father's deportation; and her mother's death from typhus, though she herself survived it. Mrs. M. describes "aktions"; hiding in bunkers; the resulting physical and psychological difficulties; mass killings; liquidation of the ghetto; escaping; hiding in t...

  20. Jean Montgomery collection

    Sheet music, "Men of the Ozark," song created for the 102 Infantry Division of the United States Army, music composed by C.W.O. F.E. Ford and lyrics written by Sgt. E.A. Grama and Cpl. E.G. Valcourt; Matchbook, cover only, printed against blue background is emblem of 102 Infantry Division and printed against yellow background is advertisement for chapel service; Photographs, black and white images of US military personel and liberation scenes, taken by LeRoy Gustafson, member of 102nd Infantry Division in Germany at Gardelegen; dated 1945.