Overview
- Description
- Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 504, Part 1. Release date, 05/20/1946.
Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on board the "Marine Flasher". LS, boat lined with passengers. View from boat, silhouetted FG men with hats, crowd waving. MS family waving, standing at edge, packed crowd behind fence/barrier of Ellis Island. Dark interior. Slow pan people on boat; happy. CU old woman with flowered hat and younger woman yelling at guard. MS, young women, Sonia Weissman (survivor of Warsaw Ghetto), running to hug and kiss. Crying women embracing. Similar shots, including hugs, tears, man kissing woman, man crying, woman wiping his face, man hugging younger man, wailing woman. Young women and men sitting together, arms around each other. Woman and little boy standing together, show camera tattoos; pan to CU on arms. VCU two other women with tattoos. Weber family with tags standing together (top row: Gertrude, Senta, Ruth, Alfons; bottom row: Renee, Judith, Bela). Crowd, mothers with babies. More shots of crowd. - Film Title
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Victims of Nazi Rule Welcomed
- Duration
- 00:01:24
- Date
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Event:
1946 May 20
- Locale
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New York, NY,
United States
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Universal News
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 05:34:28:00 to 05:35:52:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 157 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 157 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 157 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 157 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 157 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 157 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 157 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 157 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- 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.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the collection from various sources in 1988. Footage was obtained as research for the United States Holocaust Memorial Campaign's promotional video called "A Campaign to Remember" by David Haspel & Associates.
- Note
- For a duplicate copy of this newsreel, see Stories 17 and 357. For additional film (outtakes) of the refugees arriving in NY but not used in the newsreel release, see Stories 24, 351, 352, and 354.
See textual records in USHMM files that include related newspaper articles, press releases, and cameraman's dope sheets. - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- David Haspel & Associates
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2013
Source Archive Number: 200 UN 19-504-1 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:30
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