Kfar Yona. Rapatriement de 1200 civils arabes. © ICRC Archives (ARR); GOLDMAN, P.; 1949; V-P-PS-N-00004-2673

The film entitled Homeless in Palestine : aspects of a relief action presents the action of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on behalf of Palestinian refugees in the weeks following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. This film has been saved as part of the project to save the 35mm film collection with the support of Memoriav, an organization dedicated to the preservation of Swiss audiovisual heritage.
This note looks back at the context of the film’s making, its production and its content, and finally at its distribution and the reception it received. The writing of this note was done mainly on the basis of archive files as well as articles and books cited at the end. (In French)