Jewish Refugees

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This box contains one (1) scrapbook titled, "Charles Rosenbaum Member U.S. Delegation to the United Nations 1960." Additionally, there are folders with six (6) photos and a small folder or clippings related to the scrapbook and photographs.

Abstract Topics covered: Brief biographical information on Dr. Neumann, social work; working with other organizations; helping refugees, resettlement; services provided and available. In the interview, Dr. Alfred Neumann touches on his life in New York in 1938, where he received graduate training in social work. He discusses his marriage, family life, and positions in social work--most notably his directorship of the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Denver (JFCS) from 1948 to 1976. In this...

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Topics covered: Brief biographical information; served on board and as president; program for the aged and Russian resettlement; adoption program; aiding Russian immigrants; always a need for volunteers.

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Topics covered: Interview focuses on the resettlement of refugees in the Denver area and nationally; need was especially heavy after WWII; adoption services and foster home program; resettling German Jews post WWII and the Russian Jewry later; surveys of Denver Jews.

Abstract Documents and photographs from the Loewenstein family pre-World War II and Heinrich Loewenstein's [Henry Lowenstein] Kindertransport documents. File includes Levin Loewenstein's Prussian citizenship papers, registration card for emigration to the United States for Max, Marie, and Heinrich Loewenstein, photograph of Erna Eylenburg, Heinrich Loewenstein's identification papers from the Gestapo, a letter inviting Heinrich Loewenstein to come to England, receipt from Marie Loewenstein for...

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A boy refugee at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The boy is reading a memorial prayer that is written in Hebrew, while laying on his bed. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

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A boy refugee at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The boy is reading a memorial prayer that is written in Hebrew, while laying on his bed. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.

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An unidentified refugee child stands in her crib at the National home for Jewish Children in Denver Colorado.

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An unidentified refugee child sits in her crib with a doll at the National home for Jewish Children in Denver Colorado. The child was born in Milan, Italy to German parents and brought to American in 1930 by her father. Her mother committed suicide on the boat before they reached America. Her father brought her to the National Home for Jewish Children when he was admitted to a sanatorium in Denver.