Jewish people in New York City lower east side are seen in crowded outdoor market areas, busy shopping in shopping for foods for the Jewish passover festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt. The lower east side Ghetto busy with Jews buying matzos, and people unable to afford matzos (during Great Depression) are given matzos at no charge .Merchandise and push carts lined along streets. Shops and shopkeepers bargain with customers buying foods. Men wearing hats and beards, and women are in the lines. Hebrew writing on store front windows. Line of Jewish people outside a building of a Jewish charitable agency supplying matzos. Men and women seen after receiving matzo bread.
Immense rush of pedestrians, cars and vehicles causes traffic congestions and jams on roads of Manhattan, New York City. Groups of men talk to each other in groups on the sidewalks. Two young women in dresses walk by as group of men look on and admire them. Man in suit drops newspaper in trash can; next man walking behind him takes the newspaper back out and walks on. Rush of 1930's cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicles on city streets. A man attempts to cross the street on foot but cannot find a break in the traffic. A man escorts a young child across busy street. Two women run across street toward a Chop Suey restaurant. Pedestrians pause in middle of road and prepare to finish crossing busy street. All vehicles stopped in a traffic jam on city streets. Close view of a taxi cab meter continuing to run during traffic jam. Another taxi meter view (made by Pittsburgh taximeter company). Impatient man in a taxi stands up and looks through open sun roof at jam of cars. Fare continues to escalate in taxi cab. Man exits cab in middle of jammed street and pays driver. Huge masses of pedestrians moving on sidelwalks and crossing streets, and exiting tall office skyscraper buildings. A giant crowd of men in hats beneath an elevated subway track and heading toward subway entrance. Police officer directs traffic on streets. Automated signal light with moving sign arms is seen. Various police officers directing cars and pedestrians. Many street sign messages shown close up. Man smokes cigar as traffic passes by. Another smokes a cigarette. Mass of traffic and pedestrians.
The Steamship, SS Marine Flasher, arriving in the port of New York after voyage from Bremen, Germany . She is assisted by several tugboats. Her passengers, include many refugees,including former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. A number have benefited from President Truman's December 22, 1945 Directive giving preference to Displaced Persons in obtaining visas. Passengers crowd the deck and wave enthusiastically. Brief glimpse of a ferry boat passing behind the Marine Flasher. The ship has nautical flags and flags of various nations displayed aloft. (World War II period).
The steamship, "SS Marine Flasher," arrives in the port of New York, after steaming from Bremen, Germany. In addition to U.S. citizens, her passengers include many refugees, and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, who benefited from President Truman's directive of December 22, 1945, giving preference to Displaced Persons in obtaining visas. Views among the crowds gathered at the dock to welcome loved ones. People waving and smiling. One woman angrily shouting at a guard. Men, women, and children aboard the ship, many wearing identification ribbons. Passengers enter the dock area. Their relatives and friends greet them warmly. A man kisses a woman and weeps. Two men embrace. (World War II period).
Views of men, women, and children aboard the steamship "SS "Marine Flasher" docked at a pier in New York harbor after a voyage from Bremen, Germany. Her passengers include many refugees and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. Many benefited from U.S. Presidential Directive No. 29, issued on December 22, 1945, giving preference to Displaced Persons in obtaining visas. A woman with her child smiles. A boy waves at friends and relatives on shore. A young brother and sister in the ship. An older and younger woman, likely mother and daughter, show the prisoner number tattooed by Nazis on their arms. The tattoos are sequentially numbered, A-26587 and A-26588. Reuniting people hold each other with warmth and weep. A family of 7 children spanning a range of ages, with no parents evident. (Note: this is the Weber family ranging in age from 4-18. In order of age from oldest to youngest they are Alfons, Senta, Ruth, Gertrude, Renee, Judith, and Virginia (Ginger) nee Bela. The family settled in Chicago. All married and had 24 children and now numerous grandchildren. The children and grandchildren live in across the U.S. in Chicago, Maryland, Texas, Alabama, California, Virginia, Minnesota and in London, England. This Information provided in 2014, by Lynn Chapman daughter of Gertrude.) (World War II period).
Several car stunts are performed at a fair. A man drives a car with a partially rounded, open roof. He brakes the car quickly and it rolls back over front on the rounded roof rails. Next scene shows a stunt man being dragged behind a moving car at high speed, then letting go and getting up to walk away. Final stunt shows involves operator of speed cars, and one is injured in an accident during a show in Albion, New York. The referee signals and drivers race their speed cars toward each other at high speed in a game of "chicken", except that both drivers leap from their cars at the last moment and the card have a head on collision. The car drivers are Mike Felber, of Syracuse, with Ernie Fosnaugh of Chicago. Fosnaugh is injured, seemingly having tripped during his leap from the car. It leaves him badly injured after the leap out of his car. Rescue workers arrive and escort the stunt racer off the race track, in an ambulance.
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