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Purim celebration at an orphanage for Jewish children in Lodz run by the Koordynacja (Coordination Committee).

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    Purim celebration at an orphanage for Jewish children in Lodz run by the Koordynacja (Coordination Committee).
    Purim celebration at an orphanage for Jewish children in Lodz run by the Koordynacja (Coordination Committee). 

All of the children at the home had been hidden by Christian families during the war. The adults pictured in the rear are (left to right): Mrs. Zuza, Jehuda Bornstein, and Genia Distenfeld, secretary of the Koordynacja.

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    Purim celebration at an orphanage for Jewish children in Lodz run by the Koordynacja (Coordination Committee).

    All of the children at the home had been hidden by Christian families during the war. The adults pictured in the rear are (left to right): Mrs. Zuza, Jehuda Bornstein, and Genia Distenfeld, secretary of the Koordynacja.
    Photographer
    Gershater
    Date
    1949
    Locale
    Lodz, [Lodz] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Litzmannstadt
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jehuda Bornstein
    Event History
    The Coordinatsia (Koordynacja) was the Zionist organization for the search and recovery of Jewish children in Poland, who had been placed with non-Jews during the war.

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Jehuda Bornstein
    Source Record ID: HCC II

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    Record last modified:
    2015-10-21 00:00:00
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