(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Miss Amelia Greenwald, founder of the Jewish Training School for Nurses, was decorated by Minister of the Interior Sklodowsky with the Polish Cross in recognition of more than two years’ work in Poland in establishing the first training school for nurses here.
Miss Greenwald, who was a war nurse, conducting field work under actual fire throughout the war, came to Poland, and, under the most difficult handicaps, succeeded in constructing and organizing a training school and securing the interest and aid of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
The meagre funds with which she worked and the manner in which American women had helped was termed a miracle by the Minister as he bestowed the decoration.
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