JDC aids refugees, DPs
Overview
- Description
- Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germany: DP camp, people living in barracks. Central Comm. of Jews in the Am. Zone meet. Outdoor class (Palestine lesson). Retraining. Zeltliz - Hachshara farm. Italy: Hachshara farm. Convalesant home. Maritime Hachshara. France: Moissac (?) orphanage activies, training, Sabbath. Survivor talks about his desire to go to Palestine. Recap with similar footage. Hora.
- Film Title
-
Report on the Living
- Duration
- 00:25:56
- Date
-
Production:
1946
- Locale
-
Poland
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Argeles, France
Rome, Italy
Munich, Germany
Paris, France
- 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
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 16:00:21:00 to 16:26:17:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 522 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Master 522 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Master 522 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Master 522 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 522 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 522 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 522 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 522 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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).
- Copyright Holder
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- BRICHA CEREMONIES CHILDREN CHILDREN (JEWISH) CZECHOSLOVAKIA DANCING DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) FRANCE GERMANY GHETTOS HOSPITALS ITALY JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE) JEWS LIBERATION MEMORIALS ORPHANS SABBATH SCHOOLS SURVIVORS TORAH SCROLLS TRAINS TRUCKS UNITED NATIONS WARSAW GHETTO ZIONISTS/ZIONISM
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection - not accessioned
- Note
- See Story 762, Film ID 506 for similar footage of this JDC film.
Additional Film Credits:
Narration: Edward M.M. Warburg
Written by: Raphael Levy
Film Supervision: Al Paul Lefton
Chants: Rev. Pinchos Jassinowsky
The film is composed of footage photographed for the JDC in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy and Germany. - Copied From
- 1"; b/w
- Film Source
- National Center for Jewish Film
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2643
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:53:38
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