Overview
- Description
- Notes taken from NCJF documentation, cribbed from narration presented by Cedric Hardwicke: "This film describes the life of the "hard core" displaced persons in a village in South Germany. They were the handicapped, the old, and the victims of polio that no country wanted. For them no jobs were made available and their lives seemed hopeless until the Norwegian government allowed small numbers to immigrate and settle. The rest of the film shows two people: one woman whose husband and two children had TB but were rehabilitated and were able to return to normal family life, and a blind man who worked as a physical therapist with polio victims." The film ends with Hardwicke saying: "Unless they get a chance, this is how they will spend their lives and this is how their children will grow up. Why? Because ten years ago or more they were herded into cattle trucks and taken to concentration camps. Now they are to receive the ultimate insult of being told that they are useless and are not wanted? Or are they to be given a chance for a new life?"
- Film Title
-
Adventure in Freedom: No Place on Earth
- Duration
- 00:14:34
- Date
-
Production:
1950
- Locale
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Norway
Germany
Munich, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Propaganda.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 10:01:16:00 to 10:15:50:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2323 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2323 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2323 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Master 2323 Video: VHS - 1/2 inch - NTSC
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Conditions on Use
- This film can be licensed from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives (archives@jdc.org).
- Copyright Holder
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this video collection from the National Center for Jewish Film for general reference in July 2000.
- Copied From
- 16mm, b/w, sound
- Film Source
- National Center for Jewish Film
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2745
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:54:51
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