Title

Refugee Sisters Find New Home

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.95

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Date

1-1-1947

Files

Description

Front: An image of two refugee sisters, Hela and Ester Feld. Verso: A stamped date and handwritten information about the image.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

AP Wirephoto with information recto: "A NEW WORLD--Orphaned sisters Hela, 11, and Ester Feld, 14, beam with joy as they start on the first stage of their journey from an IRO-administered center at Aglasterhausen, Germany, to their new home in Toronto, Canada. The Polish-born Jewish orphans fled with their parents to Russia when the Germans invaded Warsaw. The parents died in 1942. The children are enroute to the home of a Mrs. Rotman of 228 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto."

Dimensions

10 1/2 x 8"

Keywords

Ester Feld, Hela Feld, IRO, Poland, Warsaw, Toronto, Refugees, Children, Associated Press

Subcollection

Post

Recommended Citation

"Refugee Sisters Find New Home" (1947). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.95.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/28