The first group of ten German Jewish children who are being brought to this country to complete their education arrived Friday aboard the S. S. New York. They are all boys between eleven and fourteen years old and are entering on immigration quota visas.
They were met at the pier by Miss Cecilia Razovsky of the German Jewish Children’s Aid, Inc. , 245 Fifth avenue, under whose care the children will be during their stay in America. Miss Razovsky stated that these children will be placed with private families in different parts of the country and that at the completion of their education, whenever feasible, it is planned to reunite them with their parents.
FIRST OF 250
The boys are part of a group of 250 German boys and girls who will be sent to this country from the Reich in the next few months, it was explained by Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, chairman of the German Jewish Children’s Aid. He added that the children range in age between six and fifteen, but that most of them will be between eleven and fourteen.
They are all to be placed in private homes in various parts of the United States under the supervision of professional social workers. Legal adoption, Dr. Lowenstein emphasized, is not part of the plan as both parents of many of the children are living. The youngsters, however, he pointed out, will be educated in this country and receive training in vocations that will aid them later in earning a livelihood.
Cooperating with the German Jewish Childen’s Aid, Inc. , are the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress and its women’s division, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the child placement executive group of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, HIAS, the Independent Order of the B’nai B’rith and the National Council of Jewish Women.
Paul Felix Warburg is treasurer of the German Jewish Children’s Aid, Inc. , and Joseph C. Hyman, its secretary.
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