Lilian Michaels Held, wife of Adolph Held, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, died this morning after a long illness.
After the first World War she went with her husband to Warsaw, where he was in charge of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society office there. As a volunteer she organized a system whereby Jewish children who were orphaned during the war were sent to live with relatives in the United States. She organized the Milk and Egg League of the City of Hope, in Los Angeles.
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