Jewish orphanages
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Box 25, 1979-2000
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.
Children playing on swings at the National Home for Jewish Children in Denver, 1936
Fannie Eller Lorber Papers
Jewish Benevolence, Panel 2, 2001
One of 12 exhibit display panels from the exhibit "Blazing the Trail: Denver's Jewish Pioneers." Panel titled "Jewish Benevolence" and includes B'nai B'rith and David Kline, Denver Sheltering Home, National Council of Jewish Women and Channah Milstein.
Judge Lindsey, between 1925-1930
The file contains a endorsement letter from Judge Ben B. Linsey of the Juvenile and Family Court of Denver endorsement letter dated December 22, 1925 and an article by Judge Lindsey. Judge Lindsey set up the first separate juvenile court in Denver and sent some of the children to the Sheltering Home.
Oral History Interview with Jennie Pells, 1978 August 1
Topics covered: About half of the interview is family history, biographical information; second half of interview covers the children’s home, people involved with it, her mother (Sadie Francis) on board of home from 1908-1946 when she died, then Jennie was on the board; conventions.
Oral History Interview with Sam Robinson, 1979 August 13
Topics covered: Brief family history, from Robinson farming family; grew up around the home, both parents and grandfather helped the home; came on board in 1934; name changes- Denver Sheltering Home, National Home for Jewish Children, National Asthma Center; functions, activities and anecdotes related to home.
Oral History Interview with Will and Faye Cohen, circa 1978
''The Home Chronicles'' by Morris Grodsky, 1999-2000, 1925-1940
"The Home Chronicles" written by Morris Grodsky, a former resident of the Sheltering Home, about the Sheltering Home from 1925 to 1940.