- Caption
- Selma Bendremer and Mr. Francel, an UNRRA representative from the United States, wait with a group of orphans for the buses that will take them to Hanover, where they will catch a train to Marseille. The second boy from the right is Peter Salomon (Peter Ruben Lewkowitz) now known as Yiphtach Ronen.
- Date
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1947 August 24
- Locale
- Hamburg-Blankenese, [Hansestadt] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hilde Jacobsthal Goldberg
- Event History
- The sixteen acre Kosterberg estate owned by Max Warburg, the prosperous Hamburg Jewish banker, had been in the family for generations. In October 1941 it was seized by the Nazi regime and turned over to the army for use as officers' quarters and a military hospital. Following the German defeat, the British established a field hospital on the premises. A few months later, Eric Warburg (Max's son) returned to Germany and requested the return of the property. As a member of the Joint Distribution Committee's board of directors (his uncle Felix Warburg was one of the founders of the JDC), Eric decided to turn over the estate to the JDC for use as a shelter for Jewish orphans rescued from the concentration camps. Hundreds of children (most of them liberated in Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt) passed through the Warburg home in the three years of its operation.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005367.