JDC aids refugees, DPs
Creator(s)
- Paul V. Falkenberg (Director)
- Paul V. Falkenberg (Producer)
- National Center for Jewish Film
Scope and Content
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. Convalesant home. Maritime Hachshara. France: Moissac (?) orphanage activies, training, Sabbath. Survivor talks about his desire to go to Palestine. Recap with similar footage. Hora.
Note(s)
See Story 762, Film ID 506 for similar footage of this JDC film. Additional Film Credits: Narration: Edward M.M. Warburg Written by: Raphael Levy Film Supervision: Al Paul Lefton Chants: Rev. Pinchos Jassinowsky The film is composed of footage photographed for the JDC in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy and Germany.
Subjects
- TRUCKS
- CEREMONIES
- ZIONISTS/ZIONISM
- WARSAW GHETTO
- SURVIVORS
- DISPLACED PERSONS (DP)
- LIBERATION
- BRICHA
- GERMANY
- UNITED NATIONS
- FRANCE
- JDC (JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE)
- SABBATH
- MEMORIALS
- ITALY
- TRAINS
- JEWS
- CHILDREN
- ORPHANS
- CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- HOSPITALS
- GHETTOS
- CHILDREN (JEWISH)
- SCHOOLS
- TORAH SCROLLS
- DANCING
Places
- Rome, Italy
- , Czechoslovakia
- Munich, Germany
- Argeles, France
- , Poland
- Paris, France
- , Italy
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film