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JDC: Relief efforts for Jewish DPs

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2000.621.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2627 | Film ID: 2320

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    JDC: Relief efforts for Jewish DPs
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    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 after May 1948 and creation of the State of Israel). Sign: THIS IS THE SITE OF THE INFAMOUS BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP. Concentration camp crematoria. Human ashes ("Suited perfectly for fertilizing vegetable plots.") People boarding trains from Munich. Flag with menorah symbol (after creation of the State of Israel). People in food line. Reference to Hitler having returned to Munich from World War I in November 1918 to start his "Mein Kampf". Trains leaving Munich (with emigrants) for Marseilles with Israel as final destination. Cyprus, where 50,000 Jewish prisoners were interned over a two year period, people behind barbed wire fences (footage at Liberation of Cyprus dates to February 10, 1949). Terrible living conditions (mud ground, tents, extremes of temperature with no adequate provisions, crowded, dirty camp grounds). Ritual circumcision ceremony in a camp in Cyprus. Classrooms within camp at Cyprus. February 10, 1949. Last detained prisoners pass through the gates of Cyprus camp. Prison gates at Cyprus locked for the last time. Sign on ship: "GALILAH/HAIFA." Plane ("Magic Carpet" airlift at Aden dates between 1947-48) Yemenites on foot, holding possessions they could carry, traveling through the desert. Rabbi carrying a Torah aboard plane. "Hatikvah" music in the BG as plane takes off and lands in Israel. Footage of "Operation Magic Carpet". Old man picking up earth as he lands in Israel. Children exercising in Israel. Raising Israeli flag, May 14, 1948 (possibly at United Nations). New government elected. JDC personnel giving out basic supplies. Sign on train: "EXODUS." Medical care and vocational training by JDC workers. Sign: "LICHTSPIELE" (movies). Bergen Belsen meeting at DP camp. Survivors on Liberation Day. Meeting and children at Otwock, Poland near Warsaw. Sign on ship: "ATZMAUT." Edward M.M. Warburg, JDC Chairman, speaking at the closing dinner of an International Conference on Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation. Vienna, Joint Distribution Center. Vocational training, man has tattoo on his left arm #126543. Passover ritual. Refugees arriving in Marseilles. People boarding trucks, to get to trains to eventually board ship to Israel. Arabic Jews in a "world on the edge of a volcano", January 1948 - pogrom in Crater City, Aden. In Casablanca children in streets, victims of TB, typhoid fever, malnutrition. Faces of immigrants on ship: "KEDMAH-Haifa," people boarding buses leading to trains and ships. Healthy babies, children cared for in nursery school, classrooms, playing soccer and ping pong. Film ends with children running freely as a symbol of hope for future generations.
    Duration
    00:22:50
    Date
    Production:  1949
    Locale
    Germany
    Cyprus
    Morocco
    Poland
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
    Contributor
    Director: Paul V. Falkenberg
    Producer: Paul V. Falkenberg
    Producer: JDC
    Camera Operator: Fred Czasnik

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Propaganda.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Mixed
    Time Code
    01:19:29:00 to 01:42:19:19
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2320 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
      Master 2320 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
      Master 2320 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
      Master 2320 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
    Conditions on Use
    This film can be licensed from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives (archives@jdc.org).

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this video collection from the National Center for Jewish Film for general reference in July 2000.
    Note
    Duplicate footage on Film ID 2295, Story 2664.

    Additional Film Credits:
    Film Supervision: Al Paul Lefton
    Film Story and Narrative: Raphael Levy
    Narration: Martin Gabel
    Copied From
    16mm, b/w, sound
    Film Source
    National Center for Jewish Film
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2724
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:53:37
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