us-005578-irn1002010
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has beginning date: 1945-01-01
has beginning date: 1946-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has end date: 1946-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
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has or had some members with language: eng
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identifier: irn1002010
note: Additional Film Credits: Narrated by: Orson Welles Written by: Ardis Smith Edited by: Gene Milford See Story 761 and Story 2632 for clips from this film.
scope and content: The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Footage of liberation of camps. An appeal to raise money for displaced persons. Shows footage of a number of organizers and fundraisers, and speaks of an assembly in Atlantic City, NJ to raise one million dollars. Features founders of the UJA, JDC, United Jewish Fund, etc. Footage of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg is interspersed with speeches given post war to US audiences.
title: UJA appeal for refugees overseas needs