Frances Pass was born in Boston and lived in Roxbury and Cambridge, Mass. She was the second of three children of Jacob and Esther (Cohen) Pass; Joseph was the oldest child, Ruth the youngest. In 1918 her father died and her mother tried to support the family as a seamstress at Jordan Marsh department store. She was too ill to work, however. Joseph and Frances were taken to the Home for Jewish Children, an orphanage in Dorchester, Mass., run by Associated Jewish Philanthropies. Ruth went to live with an aunt. Pass attended Oliver W. Holmes School and Dorchester High School for Girls before graduating from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1930) and Simmons College (M.S. 1954).
From the description of Diary, 1922. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008999
