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Learning that it would be possible only if both houses of Congress passed a law allowing it, Bertha Holt decided to push for such a law. [7] Two months later, the "Holt Bill" was passed, and in October 1955, Harry Holt and eight children arrived at Portland International Airport. The resulting publicity stirred interest among many families in ...
Holt & Co., British army agents and private bankers, now part of NatWest Group Henry Holt and Company , publishing company Holt International Children's Services , U.S.-based adoption company
Denmark was one of the recipients of the Korean adoptees sold by Korea Social Service and Holt Children's Services. [9] [10] Holt Children’s Service was sued by a Korean adoptee in the US for compensation. [11] [12] 1991-1992
Adoption from South Korea began in 1955 when Bertha and Harry Holt went to Korea and adopted eight war orphans after passing a law through Congress. [6] Their work resulted in the founding of Holt International Children's Services. The first Korean babies sent to Europe went to Sweden via the Social Welfare Society in the mid-1960s.
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Harry Holt is the name or nickname of: Harry Holt (footballer) (1889–1956), Welsh association football player Harry Holt (1904–1964), American who with his wife Bertha co-founded Holt International Children's Services , a child welfare NGO
The first-created component of what would eventually become Harcourt was the World Book Company (unrelated to the Chicago-based World Book, Inc. publisher of reference works), which opened its first office in Manila in 1905 and published English-language educational materials for schools in the Philippines.