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Third Congress of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany

By hmregistryMarch 22, 2015Sutin Family Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museumcity, congress, displaced persons dp, eating, exhibition, flags, Germany, jews, Munich, photograph, press, religious services jewish, spectators, speeches, street, zionists/zionism

INT, meeting of the Third Congress of the She’erit ha-Pletah in Bad Reichenhall, Germany. Shots of Jewish DPs (orthodox and secular) in attendance, the press, voting, speakers, and the stage with featured participants. Spectators touring a photograph exhibition. 01:02:53 Short dark sequence of Yizkor ceremony, followed by more images of the exhibition, including CUs of

Sam Rafel visits his hometown of Gombin in 1937

By hmregistryMarch 22, 2015Sam Rafel Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museumbicycles, carts/wagons, cemeteries, children, children jewish, churches, construction, crowds, dancing, dog, forests, horses, infants, jewish life pre-war, market, poland, poles, poverty, soldiers/military, soldiers/military polish, street, synagogues, veterans wwi, women, yiddish, youth groups, zionists/zionism

Footage depicts a 1937 trip to Gombin, Poland (123 km northwest of Warsaw) shot by Sam Rafel. All identifications are from the website of Ada Holtzman, a member of the Gombin Society. The first shot is a grainy, dark interior shot of a crowd of people. This might be the crowd that assembled for Sam

Zeilsheim DP Camp

By hmregistryMarch 22, 2015Ephraim Mayer Robinson Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museumbirthday, ceremony, children, children jewish, crowds, dancing, displaced persons dp, dp camps, eating, family, flags, food, Germany, jewish police, marching, ort, parades, play, police, signs/posters, soldiers/military american, speeches, stars of david, street, uniform, unrra, zeilsheim, zionists/zionism

Life at Zeilsheim DP camp (a small German town converted into a DP center), including a protest march and Robinson family members in various settings.;All footage shot in camp. Fay and Alice play in snow, houses in BG. Joseph (born in Zeilsheim on August 25, 1946) in the baby carriage. Children play near house. Children