Lea Lerner Camp Wo-Chi-Ca Graphics and Photographs circa 1940-1950, undated

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Lea Lerner Camp Wo-Chi-Ca Graphics and Photographs circa 1940-1950, undated

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Lea Lerner was a music teacher at Camp Wo-Chi-Ca for several years after World War II. Camp Wo-Chi-Ca (which stood for Workers Children's Camp) was a children's summer camp in New Jersey. The camp, which was founded in 1934 and ran through the early 1950s, was mainly organized by the International Workers Order (I.W.O.) and was affiliated with the Communist Party, USA. The collection contains a variety of graphic and photographic materials, most of which relate to Camp Wo-Chi-Ca.

0.25 linear feet; in 1 oversize folder

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Camp Wo-Chi-Ca (N.J.).

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Lea Lerner was a music teacher at Camp Wo-Chi-Ca for several years after World War II. Camp Wo-Chi-Ca (which stood for Workers Children's Camp) was a children's summer camp in New Jersey. The camp, which was founded in 1934 and ran through the early 1950s, was mainly organized by the International Workers Order (I.W.O.) and was affiliated with the Communist Party, USA. During the 1950s, Lerner and her family provided a safe house for underground activists Gil Green and H...

International Workers Order

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The International Workers Order (IWO), a Communist-affiliated, ethnically organized fraternal order, was founded in 1930 following a split from the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish labor fraternal order. Max Bedacht, the IWO general secretary from 1932-1946, also served on the Communist Party's Political Bureau. At its peak, shortly after World War II, the IWO had almost 200,000 members, including 50,000 in the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order. The IWO provided low-cost health and life insurance, medi...

Lerner, Lea

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