Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

Identifier
irn1001478
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1988.184.1
  • RG-60.0357
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

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.

Note(s)

  • For a duplicate copy of this newsreel, see Stories 17 and 2260. 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.

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