The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society has received a message from its Far-Eastern Bureau at Harbin, that the Child-Care Department of the Russian Government is forwarding to this country a record which it has compiled of 47.000 orphans, whose parents died or disappeared during the various reigns of terror which swept over that country since the outbreak of the World War. The purpose of this survey is to seek relatives of the orphans in the United States and elsewhere.
The 47,000 names represent the first results of an orphan-survey of the entire country which is being made by the Russian government, and covers only the Ukraine and White Russia. but it already fills twenty large sized volumes containing, besides the names. the age, sex and birthplace of the children, also the names of their parents or nearest relatives, and the institutions or private homes in which the children are sheltered.
Additional volumes will be forwarded to the New York offices of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society by the Russian Child Welfare Department which asks the Society to endeavor to locate persons in this country who either themselves or whose parents lost children during the War, the pogroms, the revolution and the counter-revolutionary invasions.
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