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Jewish refugees as their train departs for cities in Palestine

Jewish refugee men and women and children from Europe leaving a Palestine train station for cities in Palestine after World War II. Jewish men and women crowd the platform of a train station. They form a line as officers inspect their papers before boarding. A man on the platform speaks to a woman with children looking from the train window. An old Jewish woman walking on the train platform. Passengers begin to board the train. View of the steam locomotive train before departure. Men taking their luggage and belongings on the platform. A woman says good-bye to a child on the train. Another woman says goodbye to a man. Station officers and civilians from the platform watch the train leave the station.

Date: 1947, March
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079968
Imposition of Martial law in Jerusalem, Palestine

A newsreel titled 'Martial law in Palestine' shows imposition of Martial law in Jerusalem, Palestine by British mandate authorities. Military tanks roll out on the streets and access to public buildings restricted by barbed wires. Police and soldiers check and search the people on the streets. Curfew imposed in the city.

Date: 1947, March 3
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038050
Destroyed building, crater in ground and car destroyed by a powerful dynamite explosion which claimed five lives in Palestine.

A dynamite explosion at a building in Palestine kills five people. The building completely destroyed by explosion. Crater in ground shows intensity of explosion. Remains of wrecked car. Rubble and debris all over the area. Enormous smoke evolves from the explosion. Rescue workers in the ruins'

Date: 1947, April
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036720
British soldiers watch over large number of European Jewish immigrants in Palestine

A large number of Jewish immigrants from Europe in Palestine are monitored and processed by British soldiers, after World War 2. The immigrants are in good spirits and some are dancing the Hora. Groups of immigrant men are seen. One man is seen drying clothes on stone bank of drainage ditch.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038026
British troops intercept boatload of illegal Jewish immigrants in Palestine

Ship smuggling European Jewish refugees into Palestine is intercepted by British land forces who forcibly prevent their entry. Group on land is escorted under arms back to shore and to their ship. British troops take up fighting positions in the sand.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038027
European Jews arriving in Palestine from Europe after WWII

Jewish refugees from Europe arriving in Palestine after World War 2. Crowd of people enter a railway car. Police guarding security check point made of sandbags outside train station as a convoy of military trucks carrying Jewish passengers pulls up. Jewish women and men climb down from back of a truck. An Arab shepherd tends his grazing goats as convoy of trucks passes on road behind him. Palestinian women and men in train platform. Sign above platform directs travelers to different platforms for Jerusalem and Haifa. Smiling Jewish families, including a small boy holding his father's hand, queue up at the railroad train station. People waving good-bye from train windows as train departs the station.

Date: 1947, March
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078611