ID

FBW001750      Short documentary

Country / Year

Great Britain, 1948

Original Title

The Survivors

Directed by

[?]

Produced by

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Length

200 m / 18'

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

The Jewish Relief Unit (JRU), sponsored by British Jewry, performs vital work rehabilitating survivors of Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

Subject Terms

1930-1939; 1940-1949; Aliya; Auschwitz (Entire camp complex); Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp); Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Dachau (Concentration camp); British zone; Immigration; Exodus 47 (Ship); Refugee ships; Hamburg; Survivors of the Holocaust; Israel; Jewish Relief Unit; Camps; Marseille; Organization for Rehabilitation through Training; Palestine; Rehabilitation; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 200 m / 18'; 16mm

Bibliography

- Abraham F. Rad Jewish Film Archives (Hg.): Catalogue of Films. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University, 1976

Contents (detailed)

Einstellungsprotokoll (- ft)
- 000 TITLE and Introduction explaining aims of JRU (Jewish Relief Unit)
- 029 Patient sleeping restlessly
- 037 Women patients looked after by nurses
- 050 CU: Sign denoting site of Belsen
- 055 Scenes of Belsen after liberation
- 070 Inmates' huts being burned down
- 073 GV: Landscape
- 078 Remnants of camp clothing, swept away
- 087 Mass grave sites, and wreath laid at memorial stone erected by Central Jewish Committee
- 110 JRU headquarters
- 112 Fieldworkers' meeting
- 143 Patients in hospital
- 156 Supplies Receiving Center, Hamburg
- 159 Supplies unloaded at docks
- 174 JRU trucks on road
- 186 Supplies of food, clothing, medicines and shoes checked in
- 213 JRU driver getting into truck and driving on road to Austria
- 227 Relief workers coming out of relief camp
- 242 GV, Ext: Glyn Hughs hospital
- 247 JRU Medical Superintendent at work
- 251 Patient in bed
- 258 Mother with new baby
- 259 Toddlers in playpens
- 267 Patients being examined
- 280 Laboratory tests being made
- 287 Operating theater
- 292 Patients doing occupational therapy
- 304 Kitchen - matron tasting soup
- 315 Children playing at children's home in Luneburg
- 340 Children learning Hebrew
- 353 Girls in ORT School sewing class
- 369 Boys learning carpentry
- 377 "Exodus 47" refugees in relief camp at Emden employed in various tasks
- 405 Refugees in JRU library
- 419 ORT school sewing class
- 428 GV, Ext: Jewish Rest Home at Bad Herzburg
- 442 Patients relaxing
- 453 Int: Synagogues
- 467 Piano concert
- 483 Girl on river bank
- 496 GVs: Swiss alps
- 508 TB Patients examined
- 517 Children in sanatorium
- 530 Patients recuperating
- 540 JRU office in British sector of Berlin. Refugees interviewed
- 556 Crowded station platform. Refugees preparing to start journey to Palestine as part of first British Foreign Office legal transport
- 579 Belsen camp scenes
- 582 Emigrants dancing hora on platform
- 599 JRU officials waving goodbye
- 610 Train on way
- 625 CU: Flag with emblem of immigrant group
- 627 Immigrants on ship in harbor
- 637 Elderly displaced persons in relief camps
- 656 ENDS
Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem