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The Jewish Orphan Asylum Sketch published in The American Israelite, Fri Jul 6 1888, Page 1. The Bellefaire Orphanage [1] was a Jewish orphanage in Cleveland Ohio [2] founded in 1868 as an orphanage for children who lost their parents in the Civil War, making it one of the oldest orphanages in the US.
The orphanage initially offered schooling only for infants, feeling that their wards would not advance far in society due to being Black and orphans. Older children were bound by indentured servitude in which they were contracted to families, both Black and white, to learn a trade or skill until age 21. The families, in turn, paid a small fee ...
Bayit Lepletot (Hebrew: בית לפליטות, literally, "Home for Refugees"), is an Orthodox Jewish orphanage for girls in Jerusalem, Israel.Established in 1949 in the Mea Shearim neighborhood to accommodate young Holocaust refugees and orphans, the orphanage opened a second campus in north-central Jerusalem called Girls Town Jerusalem (Hebrew: קרית בנות, "Kiryat Banot") in 1973.
After the end of hostilities, Catholic Church officials, either Pope Pius XII or other prelates, issued instructions for the treatment and disposition of such Jewish children, some, but not all, of whom were now orphans. The rules they established, the authority that issued those rules, and their application in specific cases is the subject of ...
The Catholic Church had baptized many Jewish children during the war to hide them as Catholics, but after the war often refused to reunite the children with their Jewish relatives. In the Netherlands, the Dutch government set up a commission after World War II to decide the care of orphaned children, whom they deemed foster children.
Korai was taken to a Jewish boarding school in Poland, then to France and eventually to Israel in 1949. He spent 35 years working on semi-trucks. Korai had three children and eight grandchildren.
The Jewish Orphanage in Frankfurt was established through the contributions of private individuals and wealthy donors, and its upkeep was made possible by donations. [ 6 ] Founded to serve the needs of impoverished Jewish boys, the orphanage offered comprehensive care, encompassing both physical and emotional well-being, alongside educational ...
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