David Glick Film Collection
- Collection Summary
- This extraordinary collection of 16mm color footage chronicles the journeys of the American lawyer David Glick and his efforts to save thousands of German Jews from certain death through immigration to South America. While knowledge and paper records of such expeditions exist, this is the only motion picture footage pertaining to the relief and rescue missions. In 1939, Mr. Glick visited every country in South America on behalf of the JDC to survey the needs of the German and Austrian refugees who had settled there. He brought with him a 16mm camera to film his experiences with the new refugees in many of these countries. The films are a testament to the work that a private American citizen was carrying out on behalf of the Jews of Germany when the official U.S. government policy had yet to acknowledge the extent of Adolf Hitler’s plans to eradicate European Jewry.
- Credit
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Allen S. Hepner
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- Date
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Event:
1928
- Date
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Event:
approximately 1938-1939
- Date
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Event:
approximately 1938-1939
Production: 1944
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Event:
1936/37
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Record last modified: 2021-01-22 09:39:12
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David Glick's trip to WWI battle sites in France in the late 1920s
Film | Accession Number: 2004.320.2 | RG Number: RG-60.4308 | Film ID: 2701
David Glick's JDC mission to South America in the late 1930s
Film | Accession Number: 2004.320.2 | RG Number: RG-60.4309 | Film ID: 2702
David Glick's JDC mission to South America
Film | Accession Number: 2004.320.2 | RG Number: RG-60.4310 | Film ID: 2703
David Glick's trip to Europe 1936/37
Film | Accession Number: 2004.320.2 | RG Number: RG-60.4311 | Film ID: 2704
Also in David Glick collection
The collections consists of four reels of 16mm original color and black and white camera reversal film; each reel is approximately 400 feet in length. The films document David Glick's travels as a representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee helping German Jews emigrate to South America in 1939, trips to France in the 1920s, France and Bavaria between 1936 and 1938, and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. The collection also includes a bound report compiled by Allen Hepner titled "Rescue and Resettlement: Thousands saved from Nazi Germany; bound report compiled by Allen Hepner titled "Research Strategy: Retrieving Information on David Glick's Private Mission to Save German Jews;" David Glick's passport and transit documents for the time period 1936-1939; a publication about David Glick's work; and a business card of Dr. Karl Haselbacher, the deputy in charge of the "Juden Fragen," given to David Glick in 1936 during his visit to Germany where he met with Himmler and Heydrich. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Date: 1920-1940
Rescue and resettlement
Document
Contains a booklet describing the work of David Glick, a Pittsburgh, PA attorney who worked with the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to travel to Germany as an independent liaison between Nazi officials and Jewish organizations to assist German Jews in leaving the country.
David Glick papers
Document
The papers consists of two reports compiled by Allen Hepner documenting David Glick's mission to Germany and South America; David Glick's passports and transit documents for the time period from 1936 to 1939; and a business card of Dr. Karl Haselbacher, the deputy in charge of the "Juden Fragen," given to David Glick in 1936 during his visit to Germany where he met with Himmler and Heydrich.
