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Jewish refugee children wave at the Statue of Liberty as the President Harding steams into New York harbor.

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    Jewish refugee children wave at the Statue of Liberty as the President Harding steams into New York harbor.
    Jewish refugee children wave at the Statue of Liberty as the President Harding steams into New York harbor. These children are among a group of fifty Jewish refugees (25 boys and 25 girls) from Vienna, aged 5 to 14, who are en route to Philadelphia, where they will be placed with foster families. The children were accompanied by Gilbert J. Kraus, a Philadelphia attorney, and his wife Eleanor, who had worked for months to secure their admission into the U.S. Among those pictured is Johanna Braun Gitlin (two, long braids).

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    Jewish refugee children wave at the Statue of Liberty as the President Harding steams into New York harbor.

    These children are among a group of fifty Jewish refugees (25 boys and 25 girls) from Vienna, aged 5 to 14, who are en route to Philadelphia, where they will be placed with foster families. The children were accompanied by Gilbert J. Kraus, a Philadelphia attorney, and his wife Eleanor, who had worked for months to secure their admission into the U.S.

    Among those pictured is Johanna Braun Gitlin (two, long braids).
    Photographer
    Fred Mann
    Date
    1939 June 03
    Locale
    New York City, NY United States
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Anita Willens

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Anita Willens
    Source Record ID: Collections: 1989.58.34

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    Max Reid
    Record last modified:
    2019-06-12 00:00:00
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