The Files of Youth Aliyah in the Hadassah Archives 1933-2006

Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964

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Eddie Cantor was born Edward Israel Iskowitz on January 31, 1892 in New York City. He was orphaned at age of two and raised by his grandmother. Cantor was a vaudeville performer and singing waiter and appeared in Gus Edwards' Kid Kabaret, in Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics in 1916 and star in successive Ziegfeld Follies, 1917-1919. He starred in two silent films, Kid Boots (1926) and Special Delivery (1927); had own radio show through the 1930s, and was the highest paid radio star by 1936. After a h...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Frank, Anne, 1929-1945

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Anne Frank was born June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her parents were Edith and Otto Heinrich Frank; she had an older sister Margot (born 1926). The family were liberal Jews. During the rise of Hitler's Nazi Germany the hatred of Jews and the poor economic situation made Anne's parents decide to move to Amsterdam in 1934. There, Otto founded a company that traded in pectin, a gelling agent for making jam. The Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940 and started putting restrictions on J...

Wohl, Ella

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Freier, Recha

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Freund, Miriam K. (Miriam Kottler), 1906-

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Beyth, Hans

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Jewish Agency for Israel. Youth Aliyah Department

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Szold, Henrietta, 1680-1945

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Henrietta Szold, Zionist leader, was born in Baltimore of Hungarian-Jewish parentage. She taught school at the Misses Adams School in Baltimore, and was the founder of a night school for Russian immigrants in Baltimore in 1889. From 1892-1915 Szold was the secretary of the Jewish Publication Society of America. A trip to Palestine in 1909 was the turning point in her life. She became an enthusiastic Zionist, became the Secretary of the Federation of American Zionists and founder and first Presid...

Elyachar, Anna Tulin

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Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America

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Established in 1912 by Henrietta Szold to raise the standard of health in Palestine, to encourage the development of Jewish life in America, and to foster the Jewish ideal. From the description of Records, 1914-1960 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70960639 ...

Schoolman, Bertha, 1897-1974

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Kol, Moshe, 1911-1989

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Bentwich, Norman, 1883-1971

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Norman de Mattos Bentwich (1883-1971) Son of Herbert Bentwich. Educated St. Paul’s School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Called to the Bar, 1908. Served Ministry of Justice, Cairo, 1912-1915; Major, Camel transport, 1916-1918; Attorney-General, Government of Palestine, 1920-1931; Professor of International Relations, Jerusalem University, 1932-1951; Director of High Commission for Refugees from Germany, 1933-1935; Chairman National Peace Council, 1944-1946; Chairman Uni...

Reinhold, Chanoch

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Wyzanski, Gisela (Warburg)

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Frank, Margot 1926-1945

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Nitsanim (Israel).

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Ramat Hadassah Szold.

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Children to Palestine.

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Harman, Zena

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Ben Shemen.

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Weizmann, Vera, 1882-1966

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Jacobs, Rose G., (Gell), 1888-1975

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Shulman, Rebecca (Beldner), 1896-1997

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Greenberg, Marian G.

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Hadassah-Neurim.

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Landauer, Dr. George

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Me'ir Shefeyah (Israel).

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Jewish Agency for Palestine. Child and Youth Immigration Bureau

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Alonei Yitzhak.

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Sharp Cogan, Martha, 1905-1999

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