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Jewish youth boxing at the Vaad Hatzala sponsored Jabotinsky Children's Home.

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    Jewish youth boxing at the Vaad Hatzala sponsored Jabotinsky Children's Home.
    Jewish youth boxing at the Vaad Hatzala sponsored Jabotinsky Children's Home.

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    Jewish youth boxing at the Vaad Hatzala sponsored Jabotinsky Children's Home.
    Date
    1947 June 09
    Locale
    Wasserburg, [Munich; Bavaria] Germany
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Nathan Baruch
    Event History
    The Vaad Hatzala [Rescue Committee] was established by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada in November, 1939 to raise funds for Polish rabbis and yeshiva students stranded in Lithuania and later in Shanghai. As the Vaad became aware of the scope of the European tragedy, it broadened its mission to lobby Washington on behalf of all European Jewry. It participated in a march four hundred orthodox rabbis in Washington, the only public demonstration of its kind. In February, 1945 its representatives in Switzerland, Isaac and Recha Sternbuch, successfully ransomed 1200 Jews imprisoned in Theresienstadt. Other Jewish groups criticized the Vaad for its preferential treatment of rabbis and yeshiva students, its separate fundraising efforts (apart from the United Jewish Appeal), and its willingness to bribe Nazi officials in violation of US government policy.

    After the war the Vaad organized relief efforts for religious survivors in Europe. A central office was established in Germany under the directorship of Rabbis Nathan Baruch and Aviezer Burstin. A smaller branch office operated in Austria. The Vaad established fourteen rabbinical academies in various DP camps enrolling 1,515 students in order to train a new generation of rabbis, cantors, kosher butchers and scribes. It also established religious children's homes, religious schools for boys between the ages of five and fourteen, separate girl's schools and teacher training seminaries. The Vaad also distributed clothing, religious articles, and kosher food to DPs throughout Germany and assisted in their emigration to the United States, Palestine and Canada.

    https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005519.

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Nathan Baruch
    Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte
    Copyright: Exclusively with source
    Provenance: Bayerisches Pressebild
    Source Record ID: 1348

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