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War Orphans find Home: Child Holocaust Survivors and US Adoption – Live on Zoom
War Orphans find Home: Child Holocaust Survivors and US Adoption – Live on Zoom
This program is sponsored by the “Hear Their Cry: Understanding the Jewish Orphan Experience” Scholars Working Group, which has been meeting at the Center for Jewish History since September 2019. Soon after the conclusion of WWII, American Jewish families began to express interest in adopting young Jewish war orphans. Prompted by the fundraising images of child survivors that peppered the…