Jewish orphans

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Contains six file folders on the 1980 reunion and the "Home Chronicles" by Morris Grodsky about the sheltering home from 1925-1940 which was written after a 1999 reunion.

Abstract William R. Blumenthal, fundraiser, stands (at left) with 37 children on the playground of the National Home for Jewish Children in Denver near 19th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard in Denver, Colorado. Children pictured include Dan Justman, Sara Appel, Fred Vean, Fanny Barret, Doris Greenstein, Joey Barret, Mildred Vean, Rachel Passman, and Benny Passman. Originally founded as the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children in 1907, the home was established for the children of Jewish...

Abstract Sam Berman was born August 9, 1911. His father, Joseph Berman, died when he was two, and shortly thereafter Sam Berman was placed in the Denver Sheltering Home. He spent the longest amount of time at the Denver Sheltering Home of any of its residents. The Home, in consideration of Berman’s long service there, sponsored his education at the University of Denver (DU) as an undergraduate and later as a law student. Berman was admitted to the Bar in 1933, and he practiced law until 1998,...

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"The Home Chronicles" written by Morris Grodsky, a former resident of the Sheltering Home, about the Sheltering Home from 1925 to 1940.

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Art book with cream colored hardcover and book jacket with black ink; written, designed and created by Brian Twigg, a student in Martin Mendelsberg's Visual Sequencing class at Rocky Mountain School of Art and Design. Inspired by the lives of Fannie Dorfman, a tuberculosis patient at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, and her son Hyman Dorfman.