UJA relief efforts
Overview
- Description
- Title card reads, "UJA Report from Israel." Immigrants wave from a ship's deck while the narrator explains that these are Holocaust survivors arriving in Israel from Europe. Survivors disembark in Haifa as a crowd waits on the dock behind a fence. People sort through luggage and other belongings. A man stacks blankets and a woman searches for her baby carriage among several others. Items are loaded onto a truck which then takes immigrants to a camp.
Dramatic CU of International Herald Tribune headlines: "Heavy Burden Of Immigrants Strains Israel," "Situation Called Explosive,"(article written by Ruth Gruber) and "Bitter Immigrants in Israel Ask Homes in Crowded Land." Several panning shots of seemingly endless rows of tents in the camp. The narrator says, "Today, more than 68,000 are living in these tents. Did we say living? Sad exaggeration." A man rests on a cot, flies swarm around a little girl's face and a mother rocks her baby in a hammock. The narrator says that the sun and enforced idleness plague the residents of the camp, but they find productive work where they can. A woman sews and hangs laundry on a line.
The narrator comments on inadequate medical care: only 50 hospital beds are available for 11,000 residents at Pardes Hanna camp. An old woman lies sick in her tent, tended by a young girl. Women hold crying children waiting to see a doctor, two scrawny chickens tied to a rock, and a baby covered with flies, as is a bowl of food. A woman must walk half a mile for water. People walk down a dusty road toward a distant and primitive outhouse.
Immigrants stand in line to get food while the narrator comments that "they thought they were through standing in line when the left the DP camps." A few people argue while they wait. Interior shots of people eating in a dining hall. The narrator asks whether this situation is the fault of American Jewry. More shots of people in the camp. Immigrants pass each other walking on the road, a man with one leg uses crutches. The narrator pleads for donations to the United Jewish Appeal to help get these people out of these camps. Shot of man walking away from the camera carrying a child. - Film Title
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UJA Report from Israel
- Duration
- 00:09:12
- Date
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Production:
1950
- Locale
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Israel
Haifa, Palestine
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- Contributor
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Producer:
UJA
Producer: Paul V. Falkenberg
Narrator: Albert Grobe
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 04:47:57:00 to 04:57:09:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2298 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2298 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2298 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color - NTSC
Master 2298 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - color - 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
- See also Story 1348 on Film ID 2924.
- Film Source
- National Center for Jewish Film
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2782
- Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:53:40
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