The death has taken place here in his 68th. year of Eugen Caspary, President of the Welfare and Juvenile Aid Department of the Berlin Jewish Community, and founder of the Central Welfare Office of the German Jews.
He was only 27 when he started his campaign to provide honest employment for released juvenile offenders, and when two or three years later the Welfare Department of the Berlin Jewish Community came into existence he took over its direction as an honorary worker. He did a great deal for the relief of the large numbers of East European Jewish immigrants who came into Germany after the war or passed through the country on their way overseas. He was also at the head of the movement for providing assistance for the impoverished Jewish middle-class population of Berlin, establishing loan-banks, training workshops, kitchens and homes. He founded the Central Welfare Office of the German Jews in 1917, directing its work till 1926. Of late he was particularly interested in orphanage work.
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