Overview
- Description
- The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA.
Footage of liberation of camps. An appeal to raise money for displaced persons. Shows footage of a number of organizers and fundraisers, and speaks of an assembly in Atlantic City, NJ to raise one million dollars. Features founders of the UJA, JDC, United Jewish Fund, etc. Footage of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg is interspersed with speeches given post war to US audiences. - Film Title
-
Battle For Survival
- Duration
- 00:20:45
- Date
-
Event:
1945
Production: 1946
- Locale
-
Israel
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Romania
New York, NY, United States
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- Contributor
-
Producer:
RKO Pathe Inc.
Producer: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Producer: UJA
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 02:00:17:20 to 02:21:03:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2293 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2293 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2293 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2293 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
- Keyword
- BANNERS CHILDREN (JEWISH) CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CROWDS CZECHOSLOVAKIA FLAGS FOOD HUNGARY JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE) LICE NURSES PROPAGANDA ROMANIA SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES) SPEECHES TRAIN STATIONS TRAINS UNITED JEWISH APPEAL (UJA) WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
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:
Narrated by: Orson Welles
Written by: Ardis Smith
Edited by: Gene Milford
See Story 761 and Story 2632 for clips from this film. - Film Source
- National Center for Jewish Film
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2623
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:53:38
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