Photos at Andrésy France Orphanage

Description:

Composite, or 2 photos. Top photo has sign reading Emma Lazarus Women's Society. Accompanying page in Yiddish has handwritten note, saying, "Guests at the Andrésy Children's Home". The typed note says: "Above: Right-- Leah Nelson from the New York District of the Emma Lazarus Women's Division. Left-- Leah Nelson's sister."In the picture we see: from left to right: A. Rayski (General Secretary of the Union des juifs pour la résistance et l'entraide, France), Rubin Saltzman (General Secretary of the People's Fraternal Order, US), the famous painter Marc Chagall, Chief Editor of the Morgn Freiheit (Frayhayt) P. Novick, and S. Farber, General Secretary of the Central Children's Commission." Rubin Saltzman and Paul Novick were in France the summer of 1946. The orphanage is Le Manoir de Denouval à Andrésy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France. It was run by the Commission Centrale de L’Enfance, Siége Sociale, Rue 21 Francois-Debergue, Montreuil-s-Bois, France, adresser le courrier: 14 Rue de Paradis, Paris 10.

Date:

1946

Copyright:

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Creator:

Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order of the I.W.O. (U.S.). Emma Lazarus Division

File Name:

5276b53f05_15

Identifier:

International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 53, Folder 5

Repository:

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University