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JDC relief worker Sally Wideroff poses with a group of orphaned children at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 09819
JDC relief worker Sally Wideroff poses with a group of orphaned children at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. The photograph was given to Hadassah Rosensaft by Sally Bendremer. The English caption on the back reads: 'To Hadasa, with fond remembrances, and best wishes for an early, safe and tremendous aliyah. Sally von Joint.'

JDC relief worker Sally Wideroff poses with a group of orphaned children at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

The photograph was given to Hadassah Rosensaft by Sally Bendremer. The English caption on the back reads: 'To Hadasa, with fond remembrances, and best wishes for an early, safe and tremendous aliyah. Sally von Joint.'

Date
August 1945
Locale
Bergen-Belsen, [Prussian Hanover; Lower Saxony] Germany
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Bergen-Belsen -- Daily Life/Families
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hadassah Bimko Rosensaft

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Biography
Sally Wideroff (born Sally Bendremer), a JDC relief worker, spent thirteen months in the British Zone of Germany where she worked first in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Warburg children's home in Hamburg-Blankenese. While in Bergen-Belsen, Sally served as the liaison between representatives of the JDC, UNRRA and the DP camp's Central Jewish Committee. She also worked to establish educational, recreational and cultural programs for the DPs, including a camp library and film program. Sally was instrumental in opening the Warburg children's home, where she served as the JDC's child welfare specialist. In April 1946 she escorted a group of 105 orphans from the home to Marseilles, on the first leg of their journey to Palestine. In Marseilles the Warburg home orphans joined another group of children to form the first postwar Youth Aliyah transport.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Hadassah Bimko Rosensaft
 
Record last modified: 2006-06-30 00:00:00
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