Recha Freier Israeli Commemorative Postcard

Authors

Object ID

2019.2.246

Object Name

Postcard, Picture

Date

2018

Files

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Description

Postcard with black and white portrait of Recha Freier on front, two postage stamps on left side.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Youth Aliyah was founded by Recha Freier on January 30, 1933, the day Hitler took power. With remarkable prescience, she sought to protect German youth from impending doom by sending them to pioneer training camps in Palestine to be educated and absorbed into kibbutzim, the indigenous farming communities. Against extraordinary odds, she helped more than 5,000 Jewish children escape from Germany. Others were smuggled out of Europe during the war to Palestine, the UK, and other countries. Many more came to Palestine between the end of the war and the establishment of the state of Israel. Youth Aliyah also helped Jewish child survivors in DP camps. Freier herself experienced significant opposition from the German Jewish community who thought her methods illegal. She eventually fled to Palestine herself, taking a group of 40 teenagers with her. She was awarded the Israel Prize in 1981 for her efforts in saving the imperiled Jewish children of Nazi Germany and founding Youth Aliyah.

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Dimensions

4 x 6"

Keywords

Recha Freier, Youth Aliyah

Subcollection

Freier, Post

Recommended Citation

"Recha Freier Israeli Commemorative Postcard" (2018). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.246.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1573