survivors jewish – Home Movie Registry

Dachau; US military advance in Germany and Belgium

By hmregistryMarch 22, 2015Colonel Wilbur G. Dockum Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museumairplanes, Belgium, buildings, coffin, concentration camps, concentration camps liberation, dachau, destruction, Germany, military vehicles, mountains, railroad car, river, road, signs/posters, soldiers/military allies, soldiers/military american, street, survivors, survivors jewish, tanks, town, uniform

(black and white) LS of a field surrounded by wire fencing, inmates moving about, a watch tower is visible in FG, it is difficult to discern where these inmates are as the people are not very visible in LS. Large open field with mountains in BG. Plane flies overhead. Camera pans to road, two women

Postwar: Verdoner children emigrate to the US on a ship

By hmregistryMarch 22, 2015United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Verdoner Family Collectionbuildings, bus, children, children jewish, city, displaced persons dp, family, immigration, jews, Netherlands, New-York, postwar, ship, shops, signs/posters, survivors jewish, United States, women

CU, Yoka and Francisca Verdoner on the deck of a ship SS Gripsholm bound for the USA. This footage was shot post war, the Verdoner children were hidden children. Their mother Hilde was deported to Auschwitz and perished during the war. CU, all three Verdoner children arm in arm on deck- Francisca, Yoka and Otto.

OSE home for Jewish boys

By hmregistryMarch 22, 2015Simone Chaumet Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museumbus, children, children jewish, dancing, fires, France, games, jews, orphans, ose oeuvre de secours aux enfant, sports, survivors, survivors jewish, women

OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) home for Jewish boys in Ecouis, France. Film taken three months after the liberation of these teenagers from Buchenwald in June 1945. Film shows boys dancing and engaging in sports. Some board a bus and wave goodbye [emigration to Palestine?]. Boys visit city, socialize on the beach with girls,

Postwar: Verdoner children emigrate to the US on a ship

By hmregistryMarch 22, 2015United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Verdoner Family Collectionchildren, children jewish, displaced persons dp, family, immigration, jews, Netherlands, postwar, ship, survivors jewish, women

VS, the three Verdoner children – Otto, Francisca and Yoka playing in the woods. This footage was shot post war, the Verdoner children were hidden children. Their mother Hilde was deported to Auschwitz and perished during the war. Cut to Otto on the deck of a ship SS Gripsholm. VS, of the three children on