heilbrunn, karl; heilbrunn, julius; heilbrunn fritz Portraits Children

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helbrunn, fritz. orderly; unidentified military personel; unidentified wounded; unidentified children; field hospital Military; Portraits

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Photo collage of children with toys and menorah in background; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"3615 Kinder wurden zu Chanukka mit Bekleidung im Gesamtwertvon: 40000 Mark bedacht und erhielten fuer 2000 Mark Spielzeung und Suessigkeiten"

Tel Aviv - Children's Home

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Tel Aviv - Children's Hosp. (Hospital)

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Women and Children Standing in Lines

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"... I want an Ocean between us!" : Letters from Samuel Kahn, devoted father of one of the thousand children brought from Germany to the United States in 1934.

The manuscript contains letters written by Samuel Kahn to his daughter in the USA between 1934 and 1937.

1933-1953 German Jewish Children's Aid

The records of the GJCA relate to the entire range of activities involved in receiving and placing refugee children from 1933 through the 1950s. The later materials are records of the European Jewish Children's Aid. Activities included: maintaining the reception center in New Jersey; transportation arrangements; placement in homes; issuing affidavits and passports; granting scholarships; naturalization of children; setting of GJCA policy. By-laws, minutes, reports, correspondence and certificate of incorporation. Correspondence of executive officers, mainly Cecilia Razovsky, 1930s. Correspondence between William Haber and Lotte Marcuse, 1939-40. File of Dr. Solomon Lowenstein. Minutes of meetings of the Finance Committee. Field reports, inter-office memoranda, financial and statistical reports. Correspondence with organizations and governmental agencies: Society of Friends (Quakers) in Vienna; Israelitische Kultusgemeinde of Vienna; Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland; Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies; Department of Justice; New York State Department of Social Welfare; U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; American Friends Service Committee; American Jewish Congress; B'nai Brith; National Council of Jewish Women. Correspondence with individuals: Max S. Perlman, William Rosenwald, Paul Felix Warburg. In addition to the general administrative records, there are thousands of case files.