Produced by the U.S. Office of War Information. This film was part of a series to introduce America to millions of people all over a war-torn world. A total of 26 short films were produced between 1942 and 1945.
The bus used in the short was a shuttle service from Providence Rhode Island with the INTERSTATE TRANSIT CORP BUS lines from the early 1940's.
According to the Daily New Hampshire Gazette in an interview in 1995, Several of the refugees, who appear in the film with fictionalized names, had been noted artists, craftspeople and literary figures beginning life anew. Some settled at least briefly in Northfield, although most moved on. The refugees - most of them Jews - navigated an uneasy relationship with townsfolk at a time rife with wartime tensions.