DP youth dance the hora at the Warburg children's home in Blankenese.
Overview
- Caption
- DP youth dance the hora at the Warburg children's home in Blankenese.
Among those pictured is Egon Fink, who worked for AJDC at the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp, and helped run the Children's Home in Blankenese. He is pictured standing on the far left, toward the back of the group. - Date
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1945 - 1946
- 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.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Hilde Jacobsthal Goldberg
Keywords & Subjects
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