Rabbi David Eliach collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.612.1

Overview

Description: Collection of photographs depicting the "Teheran Children," a group of approximately seventy observant children out of a group of 861 Jewish orphans, who were placed in the "Motza" children's agricultural colony under the leadership of David Eliach.
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rabbi David Eliach
Collection Creator: David Eliach
Biography: Rabbi David Eliach is 7th generation Jerusalemite; born in 1922. In 1943 the "Bnei Akiba" movement asked him to work with Teheran Children for just a few weeks. He was taken by the suffering of the children and felt it was his duty to guide the orphan children. He put aside his law school plans and devoted himself to the children of the Motza colony. In later years Rabbi Eliach was a principal of the high school of the Flatbush yeshiva in Brooklyn, NY.

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Rabbi David Eliach.