Jewish Displaced Persons, JDC efforts 1946

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2000.621.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2589 | Film ID: 2309

Overview

Description: Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germany: DP camp, people living in barracks. Central Comm. of Jews in the Am. Zone meet. Outdoor class (Palestine lesson). Retraining. Zeltliz - Hachshara farm. Italy: Hachshara farm. Convalescant home. Maritime Hachshara. France: Moissac (?) orphanage activities, training, Sabbath. Survivor talks about his desire to go to Palestine. Recap with similar footage. Hora.
Film Title: Report on the Living
Duration: 00:25:54
Date: Production: 1946
Locale: New York, NY, United States
Europe
Rome, Italy
Paris, France
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Germany
France
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Warsaw, Poland
Poland
Munich, Germany
Bratislava, Slovakia
Slovakia
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Contributor: Director: Paul V. Falkenberg
Producer: Paul V. Falkenberg

Language: English
Genre/Form: Documentary.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 16:00:23:00 to 16:26:16:26
Film Format: Master
Master 2309 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2309 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2309 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2309 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC

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

Keyword: CANTORS CEMETERIES CHILDREN CHILDREN (JEWISH) DISPLACED PERSONS (DP) FOOD JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE) JEWS REFUGEE CAMPS REFUGEES REFUGEES (JEWISH) SABBATH SINGING STARS OF DAVID WOMEN

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: Duplicate footage found on Film ID 522, Story 2560 (This story without sound)

Additional Film Credits:
Narrated by Edward M.M. Warburg, Chairman, JDC
Written by: Ralph Levy
Traditional Chants by: Rev. Pinchos Jassinowsky
Film Supervision: Al Paul Lefton
Special thanks for assistance and footage to:
Canadian Film Board
Filmova Kronika (Czechoslovakia)
Direction Du Cinema (France)
Eclair Journal (France)
Exclaireurs Israelite De France (France)
Federation des Associations Juives (France)
Union Des Juifs Pour La Resistance et Entr'aide (France)
Central Committee of Liberated Jews- United States Zone (Germany)
Joint Relief Committee (Hungary)
S.A.C.I. (Italy)
Film Polska (Poland)
UNRRA
US Army Signal Corps
JDC

The film is composed of footage photographed for the JDC in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy and Germany.
Film Source: National Center for Jewish Film
File Number: Legacy Database File: 2700
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive