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Bethlehem Steel workers clash with police during a strike at the plant in Lackawanna in New York.
Bethlehem Steel workers protest during a strike and throw pickets at the plant in Lackawanna in New York. Workers clash with the police. Police on horses carry billy clubs and move horses against the crowd, and beat back at labor protestors with clubs to control the crowd. Members of the management team seen in an office as they discuss the 3 point plan at the Office of Production Management which ends the strike.
Dr Bernard Joseph speaks for Jews at War Emergency Conference of World Jewish Congress
Dr. Bernard Joseph speaks at War Emergency Conference of World Jewish Congress in Atlantic City, during World War 2. He presents a resolution on Palestine and calls for the establishment of Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth. Further he appeals to the United Nations to aid in the transfer of Jewish survivors of the holocaust to Palestine. Dr Stephen S. Wise can be seen seated next to the Dr. Bernard Joseph.
Israeli delegates go to the United Nations and seek for a separate Jewish state -- formation of Israel.
Formation of Israel in May 1948 and events leading up to it. October 1947: Jewish refugees from Europe aboard two ships arriving in Palestine, only to be turned away by British authorities and sent to internment in Cyprus. They get off from the ship Cyprus. A Jewish woman with her child at the dock. A sign reads 'United Nations Palestine Commission'. Delegates seated in a hall debating about the partition of Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs. Destroyed houses and buildings in Haifa after fighting between Israeli and Arab forces. Jewish troops holding guns walk on the ruins of building. The dead Jewish people on street. The troops stand in a group. Captured Arab prisoners in the Negev desert area, being directed by Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF). The prisoners with their hands up enter a vehicle. Cars and people on a street with a traffic circle in Tel Aviv. Prime Minister of Iseral David Ben Gurion enters a building on May 14, 1948, to be installed as leader of the new government. The Jewish soldiers stand holding guns. A flag of Israel flatters in air. United Nations soldiers stand holding a white flag and join Israeli troops in recovering bodies of Israeli soldiers killed in ongoing skirmishes with Arab forces. The troops stand on a border. President of Israel Chaim Weizmann, a Jewish patriot, walks with officials. Soldiers stand on the side. The Israel delegates go to the United Nations and seek for Israel to be admitted to the United Nations. Delegates seated in hall. Middle Eastern Arab country representatives of the UN walk out of the hall in protest after Israeli receives the vote admitting it to the UN. The empty seats of the Arab countries. The new state of Israel is born. Flags are raised at the UN including the flag of Israel. People cheer and celebrate. From a July 2, 1964 newsreel of "Yesterday's Big Story".
Jewish refugees arrive at a Palestine internment camp at Athlit in Haifa, Palestine during World War II.
Jewish refugees arrive in Haifa, Palestine during World War II. Jewish refugees in front of a train. The train is to take them to the disembarkation point and then to Palestine internment camp at Athlit. The train reaches and stops in Athlit. Members of Jewish agency stand along a road in front of the train. The refugees get off the rail cars. A sick person is helped by two nurses. A sick person on a stretcher is placed in an ambulance. The first column of the refugees leaves the station at Athlit and walks toward the quarantine camp. In the background is the sea and and nearer is the train which brought them. Palestinian and British police count the refugees on their entry into the camp.
Palestinian Arab refugee children at the Dar El Tifl orphanage in Bethlehem
Palestinian Refugee children at the Dar El Tifl orphanage for homeless Muslim and Christian refugee children in East Jerusalem, run by Hind Husseini. Children orphaned from violence in Jaffa, Haifa, and other cities to the north. View of Church of the Nativity. View of the Church of All Nations. Scenes from the Dar El Tifl orphanage for children. Orphanage founder, Hind Husseini, teaches young girls in an open area on the grounds of her home, which she converted into the orphanage. Girl writes in Arabic on the blackboard. Young boys work in the garden and play soccer on the grounds of Ms. Husseini's orphanage. Children eat food while seated at a table. Toddler cries. Two children sleep on one bed. Older women refugee workers make dresses. Boys make shoes and tin cups. Carpenters make furniture in workshop. View of Jordan River.
The repaired German U-boat Deutschland leaves New London, Connecticut, bound for Germany.
The German U-boat submarine, Deutschland, repaired after a 16 November, 1916 collision with the tugboat "T.A. Scott Jr.", leaves U.S. for Germany on 21 November, 1916. The launch "Efco" opens the pontoon fence guarding the submarine's berth, and the submarine slowly moves out of the dock area. She carries 6.5 tons of silver bullion on this successful British blockade-evading voyage back to Germany.
