THE FUTURE CAN BE THEIRS - THE STORY OF EUROPE'S JEWS TODAY [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE FUTURE CAN BE THEIRS - THE STORY OF EUROPE'S JEWS TODAY [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6728
  • Other titles: ALEXANDER BEN BERNFES FILM COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Fundraising appeal introduced by Henry Morgenthau Jr, General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), illustrates the work already achieved by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) role in the relief, reconstruction and resettlement of European Jewry after 1945 over film of Displaced Person's (DP) camps, Merano Sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers, training in agriculture (for settlers to Palestine) and maritime instruction (in Italy), the work of the Jewish educational charity ORT providing agricultural training for settlers in Palestine.
  • Description: Shotlist (- ft): - 000 CREDITS - 037 GV: Canadian fundraising assembly, CUs: newspaper headlines of Henry Morgenthau's (UJA, General Chairman) reports - 051 Morgenthau speaking to assembly - 080 Edward M.M. Warburg (JDC, Chairman) on phone to Morgenthau - 087 CU: Herbert H. Lehman (JDC, Vice-Chairman) - 092 CU: Harold F. Linder (JDC, Vice-Chairman) - 095 CU: Moses A. Leavitt (JDC, Executive Vice-Chairman) - 098 Warburg chairing executive meeting - 171 CU: Concentration camp survivor - 175 GV: Graves - 180 CUs: Survivors - 185 JDC workers organising and transporting supplies - 220 DPs awaiting distribution of supplies - 233 Football match in progress - 240 Children at beach - 249 JDC executives discussing situation in Europe at meeting - 257 GVs: Devastated Warsaw - 262 Refugees on road, on foot and by truck - 292 Living conditions in crowded DP camps - 315 DP children in class with JDC teachers - 330 JDC-run clinic - children examined - 344 Patients in JDC Merano Sanatorium, Italy - 352 Children in JDC home - 365 JDC meeting discussing alternative solutions for European Jews - 434 GV: Jerusalem - 440 DPs en route from camps by train and arriving at new destinations - 463 CUs: DPs at work in retraining workshops for carpentry and sewing, and factories - 509 Agricultural training centre in Europe - 529 Boat built and launched - 555 JDC meeting - 587 Larry Adler playing harmonica for children in Munich - 605 Children on picnic - 627 DP camp communal Seder taking place - 670 Morgenthau summing up and making appeal - "The future can be their's, but only if we help to make it their's." - 707 ENDS Acc. to and adapted from Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem- via Fritz Bauer site.
  • Alternative Title: ALEXANDER BEN BERNFES FILM COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: MGH 6728
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: NON-IWM
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  • Production Date: 1948
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Production sponsor) Educational Documentary Films, New York (Production company) Falkenberg, Paul (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 689 ft; Running time: 18 mins
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