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One orphanage was established for Jewish children in 1911 and stopped working on 1942, when the SS took all its residents and workers to Treblinka extermination camp. The other orphanage, for Christian children, was established in 1918, after World War I, and was nationalized by the German occupier in 1940. Most of the information about the ...
The orphanage was founded near the Bukharim quarter in 1900 [2] [3] by Rabbi Abraham Yochanan Blumenthal (1877 [4] –1966 [5]), a native of Jerusalem, [4] who led the orphanage for 50 years. [2] Blumenthal's wife, Shaina, served as a director for 40 years. [6] By 1920, the Blumenthal Orphanage was home to 85 orphans.
CENTOS was founded in April 1924 by Jewish activists who sought to help children who had become orphaned in the aftermath of World War I. [6] [7] It was formed by the integration of hundreds of smaller regional institutions, mostly focused on caring for Jewish orphans. [1] In addition to its headquarters, it had nine regional committees.
She met Dr. Janusz Korczak in 1909 and went to work at his Jewish orphanage. [1] [2] Besides looking after the day-to-day operation of the orphanage, she also organized fundraising activities in support of the orphanage. [3] During World War I, Korczak was called up for military service and Wilczyńska had to manage the orphanage by herself. [4]
With Martha Mamlok on this 21st "Osttransport" of October 19, 1942, 959 people and almost 60 children between 2 and 16 from the Jewish orphanage in Prenzlauer Berg on Schönhauser Allee 162 were deported, including their three carers. Tana Mamlok, Eva's then three-year-old daughter, stayed behind in another Berlin Jewish orphanage after her ...
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Canadian adoptive families raise concerns about the reliability of documentation and their welfare when adopting children from Ethiopian orphanages, following several instances where families of supposed orphans are found alive, or the health and age of the children are not consistent with their documentation. [22] [23] [24] 2004