Around the World
(1957),
documentation of Jewish communities in India and Iran
(2021 Federal Grants).
Egyptian and Hungarian Refugees
(1957),
documentation of Jewish emigration from post–Suez Crisis Egypt in 1957 and post-revolution Hungary in 1956
(2020 Federal Grants).
Forsake Me Not
(1958),
documentary about elderly immigrants in Israel transitioning from temporary housing to homes provided by the Jewish Distribution Committee
(2018 Federal Grants).
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Founding a New Life
(1920–38),
documentation of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee charity work in Russia and Ukraine
(2024 Federal Grants).
Immigrants in Casablanca, Belgium and Holland Tourist Scenes
(1954–56),
footage of transit camps for Jews emigrating to Israel
(2023 Federal Grants).
Immigration of Yemenite Jews to Israel
(1949),
footage taken by the president of Alaska Airlines of the Operation Magic Carpet airlift mission, which transported 49,000 Yemenites
(2019 Federal Grants).
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Israel
(1954–57),
footage of arriving refugees, the opening of a JDC-sponsored home for the aged, and a kibbutz wedding attended by David Ben Gurion
(2023 Federal Grants).
Israel Field Trip
(1949–51),
footage of Jewish refugees arriving and being settled in Israel, filmed by the JDC’s Executive Vice Chairman
(2020 Federal Grants).
Italy, Yugoslavia, and Israel
(1955),
travel footage filmed by Executive Vice Chairman Moses Leavitt
(2023 Federal Grants).
Lavoslav Schwarz Rest Home
(1967),
documentation of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee charity efforts at a home for the aged in Zagreb, Croatia
(2024 Federal Grants).
A Mother for Shamsi
(1961),
fiction short repurposed from footage of Tehran’s Jewish ghetto filmed by Mohammad Ali Issari, official cinematographer to the Shah of Iran
(2022 Federal Grants).
North Africa #1 and # 2
(early 1950s),
documentation of Jewish schools and organizations supported by the JDC in Morocco and Tunisia
(2022 Federal Grants).
Paris Travelogue, April 1948
(1948),
footage of the Jewish Distribution Committee’s Paris conference to assess the conditions of Holocaust survivors in Displaced Persons camps
(2019 Federal Grants).
Passover in Vienna
(1947),
footage of a celebration for Holocaust Survivors at an Austrian transit center
(2024 Federal Grants).
Poland Postwar 1949
(1949),
documentation of the Jewish Distribution Committee’s humanitarian activities before it was forced out by the postwar communist government
(2017 Federal Grants).
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Refugee Children in France
(1956),
footage of a home used to prepare North African children for immigration to Israel
(2022 Federal Grants).
Refugees in Transit Camp in Marseilles, France
(1956),
footage of Jewish Egyptian refugees filmed by the AJJDC Executive Vice Chairman
(2022 Federal Grants).
Rothschild Hospital, Vienna
(ca. 1945–48),
footage of a refuge center for Polish and Romanian Jews displaced by postwar anti-Semitism
(2016 Federal Grants).
Santa Domingo
(1958),
footage of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s operations in the Dominican Republic
(2021 Federal Grants).
South America
(1954),
documentation of Jewish communal organizations and children’s programs in Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay
(2021 Federal Grants).
South American Children’s Colony
(1944),
footage of a Buenos Aires children’s home for German-speaking Jewish refugees
(2017 Federal Grants).
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The Story of a Smile
(1952),
JDC-sponsored film on a kindergarten in Tunisia whose staff use methods from the JDC’s Paul Baerwald School of Social Work
(2023 Federal Grants).