JDC relief efforts for Jewish DPs
Overview
- Description
- Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Israel, people on ship and on dock, waving, smiling, people disembark, kiss as family members reunited. Max Fisher and Lou Pincus talk. Marseilles, Jews board ship. Nameless city, plane (alludes to Russia). Naples, plane. Geneva, woman at switchboard. Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. LS, Jerusalem, men in office, discussing, planning. Two men read teletype, phone calls between offices, nurses, food, ambulance, housing, bulldozer. Naples and Marseilles, emigration preparation, ship at dock, ship sets sail. Bus, man in office at phone, back to teletype, Planes land, people disembark, immigrants in Naples, woman with paper, medical exams, morning prayer, bus to SS Flaminia in Naples harbor. People get off bus, get on boat, set sail. Cut back to office, making plane arrangements, people shaking hands. Max talks, asks for money. Drought in Negev, women with David Ben Gurion, grave of Weizmann, women get back on plane.
- Film Title
-
Telex from Geneva
- Duration
- 00:14:23
- Date
-
Production:
1965
- Locale
-
Israel
Geneva, Switzerland
Naples, Italy
Marseilles, France
Italy
France
Switzerland
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- Contributor
-
Director:
Arnan Zafrir
Producer: Raphael Levy
Producer: Arnan Zafrir
Camera Operator: Jacques-Andre Blancheris
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 01:42:37:00 to 01:57:00:22
- 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).
- Copyright Holder
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- 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
- Additional Film Credits:
Supervision: Paul Falkenberg
Editor: Wing Lum
Story: Moshe Rivlin
Script: Raphael Levy, Max Fisher, Louis Pincus
Narration: Eugene King - Film Source
- National Center for Jewish Film
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2725
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:53:37
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1001287
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