UJA/JDC appeal for relief for Jewish DPs
Overview
- Description
- Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Against a background of authentic newsreel footage showing the condition of the remaining survivors, the audience is urged to give to the campaign. The funds will allow these people to immigrate, either to Palestine, or the United States, where they can resettle.
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.
Remnants of Warsaw Ghetto ruins, DP survivors, people in rags, walking aimlessly. Concentration camp crematoria with corpse at Majdanek. Allies carrying survivors on stretcher to ambulance trucks. Atlantic City 1946, National UJA Conference/representatives from European countries also present. Banner reads: "5,700,000 Did They Die in Vain?". At the Nuremberg trials, shots of European freedom fighters, including wartime head of Maquis, William Rosenwald, Edward Warburg, others identified by narrator. Excerpts of speeches by Joseph Schwartz, Col. Judah Nadich, Eisenhower's advisor on displaced persons, and Mrs. David M. Levy, Women's Division Chairperson. JDC food shelters, medical care, clothing supplies in Europe. Child survivors of Buchenwald boarding train to Marseilles. JDC personnel washing children. In Palestine: New construction; modern equipment; new industries; fishing boats; clearing the desert for new irrigation pipes. Tel Aviv. Students in schools; labs; agricultural training. Immigrants getting off ship "Palestine". Processing of new immigrants in the United States. Mrs. Levy, Women's Division, speaking. VS, refugees. - Film Title
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Battle For Survival
- Duration
- 00:59:02
- Date
-
Event:
1945
Production: 1946
- Locale
-
Warsaw,
Poland
Nuremberg, Germany
Majdanek, Poland
Israel
Buchenwald, Germany
Tel Aviv, Palestine
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- Contributor
-
Producer:
RKO Pathe Inc.
Producer: JDC
Producer: UJA
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 00:23:00:00 to 01:22:02:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2296 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2296 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2296 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2296 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:
Narrated by Orson Welles
Written by Ardis Smith
Edited by Gene Milford
See Story 761 for clips from this film. - Copied From
- 16mm, b/w, sound
- Film Source
- National Center for Jewish Film
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2750
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:53:39
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