View of the JDC children's home on the Warburg estate in Blankenese.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 97142

Date: 1948
Locale: Hamburg-Blankenese, [Hansestadt] Germany
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Orphans/Children's Homes/Summer Camps -- Germany -- Hamburg-Blankenese
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of John Fink

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.

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Keyword: CHILDREN'S HOMES
CHILDREN'S HOMES (BLANKENESE)
DP CAMPS/CENTERS
VIEWS
WARBURG (BLANKENESE ESTATE)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: John Fink

Source Record ID: Collections: 1990.247
: Record last modified: 2000-03-29 00:00:00
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