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In honor of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, the Kraus Family Foundation and the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) announced on April 30, 2019, on the eve of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), the formation of the Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus Initiative for Immigrant and Refugee Justice. The foundation’s cofounders, Peter (the grandson of Gilbert ...
The film tells the story of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia who traveled to Nazi Germany in 1939 and, with the help of the B'rith Sholom fraternal organization, saved Jewish children in Vienna from likely death in the Holocaust by finding them new homes in Philadelphia.
Marie Elisabeth Jean Elmes (5 May 1908 – 9 March 2002) [2] was an Irish aid worker credited with saving the lives of at least 200 Jewish children at various times during the Holocaust, by hiding them in the back of her car.
All-of-a-Kind Family was also the first recipient of the Jewish Book Council's National Jewish Book Award for children's literature in 1952. [9] The book is considered foundational to the development of American Jewish children's literature, [ 10 ] and the Association of Jewish Libraries ' annual children's literature award is named the Sydney ...
Kibbutz Afikim children with their nanny at the children's house. Mid 1960s. Kibutz Gan Shmuel 1935-40. A group of children, all about the same age, shared a children's house and had a nanny who took care of their everyday needs. Each house had a dining hall, a classroom, bedrooms (3-4 children in each room), and a bathroom. Boys and girls took ...
Anne Frank House recreated in NYC exhibit honoring liberation of Auschwitz: ‘We remember the 1.5 million lives of Jewish children that were cut short’ Nicki Gostin January 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The One Thousand Children (OTC) [1] [2] is a designation, created in 2000, which is used to refer to the approximately 1,400 Jewish children who were rescued from Nazi Germany and other Nazi-occupied or threatened European countries, and who were taken directly to the United States during the period 1934–1945. The phrase "One Thousand ...
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