Documentation of Children in Transit Camps

31 Minutes, 1937
Genre:
Documentary
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Directed by: Unknown
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A film that combines documentary clips of child care from the period of the establishment of the state. The film shows nurses caring for, showering, and weighing newborns at Beilinson Hospital, and then shows documentation of toddlers and young children playing with balls and playing cards, enjoying the hot sun, and jumping into the pool. The continuation of the film presents excerpts from the process of absorbing the immigrants who come to Israel in the first years of the state from the concentration camps in Europe. The photographed immigrants disembark from the ships that brought them to Israel, some on their own and some with the help of their friends, and from there are sent to a reception camp, where they undergo medical examinations. The narrator says that about twenty percent of the immigrants need medical care and the main effort is devoted to caring for children. From the reception camp, the immigrants are transferred to 36 absorption camps scattered throughout the country, where they receive everything they need to maintain a routine of life. In the first two years, about 400,000 immigrants passed through these camps, and at the time of the filming, about 90,000 people were still living in the transit camps. A great deal of money is invested in absorbing the great aliyah in an effort that has never been seen before in the world. Most of the money is allocated to the care of children and their integration into the power of building the country.

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