Overview
- Description
- Jewish shelter on Mansell Street, Whitechapel, London, England. Permanent institution for helping poor Jews, housing approximately 120 refugees (mostly Austrian). Dining hall, crowded, free meals. Adolph and Sarah Michaelson, the Superintendant and Matron of the shelter from about 1912 until 1940, appear in this sequence (Adolph is the gentleman with the mustache standing at 04:00:05 and at right at 04:00:26. Sarah wears a lace collar in the doorway at 04:01:31. Their daughter, Esther (known as Elsie, b. 1915), is the third serving person in a white coat who comes into the dining room at 04:01:00). CU boys eating. Waitresses, people dining. General view of the recreation room. CUs, scenes of activities, refugees at shelter. 04:01:59 CU, refugee typing. 04:04:42 General view of sleeping quarters at shelter. 04:06:44 EXT, Jewish shelter with refugees entering and leaving. 04:08:03 CU, name plate at side of door, "Jews' temporary shelter" and Hebrew below.
- Film Title
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The Refugee-Today and Tomorrow
- Duration
- 00:08:54
- Date
-
Event:
December 1938
Production: December 1938
- Locale
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London,
England
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Camera Operator: J.S. Hodgson
Subject: Adolph Michaelson
- Biography
-
Adolph and Sarah Michaelson lived in an apartment in the shelter building on Mansell Street and raised a family of five children there. Adolph (Hebrew name Asher) was born in Izbica, near Lublin, on 18 December 1884. His original name was Mikolovski. Sarah Roth was born in KIalisz, Poland on 5 January 1885. They were married in London on 11 July 1911.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 04:00:04:00 to 04:08:58:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 55 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 55 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 55 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 55 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 55 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 55 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 55 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 55 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in August 1997.
- Note
- Cameraman's dope sheets in departmental files.
See Story 2067, Film ID 866 for duplicate footage. - Copied From
- 35mm MPC neg
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1315
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 667 E - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:44:04
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