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Pre-WWII, 1939 - Switzerland, Jewish Refugee Center Activities

Reel Number: 221731-06

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1939,1930s

Country: Switzerland

Location:

TC Begins: 21:48:41

TC Ends: 21:58:04

Duration: 00:09:23

Pre-WWII, 1939 - Switzerland, Jewish Refugee Center Activities, 1939 Three young men stirring steaming kettles & cooking in institutional / industrial kitchen. MCUs. Woman tastes from kettle, then fills ?? 21:50:08 LS of large filled room of mostly men in sweaters at tables; served & eating soup. MS. 21:50:53 Group of refugees w/ small suitcases walking / hurrying thru woods, across fields at edge of woods. Man gestures to others following who hurry after. 21:51:57 People run out of large house to greet them. 21:52:11 Interior, men & woman grouped around large radio, listening. 21:52:41 Large room filled w/ young adult refugees, two men w/ stringed musical instruments strumming / playing. Group listening, singing. 21:53:09 MCU Men & women reading, writing; one w/ pipe. Sealing envelopes. MCU writing on paper w/ Star of David & Emigrantenlager Albis on top of paper. Hans Deutsher, Wien, Osterreich. 21:54:21 CU young man’s face. 21:54:32 Men sawing, nailing & planing wood for attic bunks or shelves. 21:55:01 Men at table reading, playing chess as others watch. 21:55:15 Line of refugees up stairs to table, giving papers & man signing. 21:56:18 Same refugees out of woods & greeted. Man in yard chopping kindling, sees them & calls others out. Repeated. 21:57:01 Refugees inside, hand sewing clothes. 21:57:05 MCU man playing mandolin (?) / stringed instrument, others singing. 21:57:41 Shoemaker working, man brings pair of shoes w/ soles falling off. MCU. Pre-WW2; War Preparations; Czechoslovakian Jewish Refugees; Escaping Nazism; Illegal Border Crossing;

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