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This book tells of the life and times of the children from the three Pinsk Jewish Orphanages in the 1920s. The story of these Pinsker Jewish Orphans is but a small part of a much larger and forgotten part of Jewish History, the horrors suffered by the Jews in The Pale of Settlement between the two world wars. These horrors have been overshadowed by the Holocaust. These horrors commenced in 1914 with WWI and the forced relocation of Jews by the Russians. This was followed by the Spanish Influenza epidemic and pogroms committed by advancing and retreating troops. Finally complete chaos, devastation, crop failure, starvation and the diseases that accompany hunger and cold, added to the extremely harsh living conditions that continued well into the 1920s. Jewish communities around the world were shocked by the news of the horrors of war and the pogroms, starvation and disease suffered by Jews in the Pale of Settlement. Especially horrific, were accounts of wholesale rape, extortion and slaughter of their brethren by Polish, Ukrainian and Belarus nationalistic armies and the Red and White (Cossack) Russian troops. No one knows how many Jews perished in The Pale of Settlement between the two world wars. In January 1921 the then British Chief Rabbi, Dr Hertz, declared "1,000,000 human beings had been butchered and that for three years 3,000,000 persons in the Ukraine had been made 'to pass through the horrors of hell' and there were some 600,000 homeless children, 150,000 orphans and 35,000 double orphans in the Ukraine who would die from cold, hunger, or disease unless Jewish hearts remained human and came to their rescue." The Jewish communities around the world heard the cries of their brethren whom they helped in many ways. The primary purpose of this book is to remember those Pinsker Orphans left behind and includes 135 letters in Hebrew and Yiddish written by them in 1921 to their hero, Alter Bobrow. It is most important to remember these children by publishing their letters, as no one knows how many of them perished in the Holocaust 20 years later. Alter Bobrow, as a young man helped save the children and he, together with his comrades, looked after them and helped establish the three orphanages in Pinsk in 1917. In 1921 Alter accompanied Isaac Ochberg with the 181 Ochberg Orphans, selected from orphanages in the Pale, including 44 from the Pinsk orphanages, to South Africa. As The Ochberg Orphans book, published in 2011, includes the full histories of 30 of the 44 Pinsker Orphans that went to South Africa with Isaac Ochberg and Alter Bobrow in 1921, this book only tells their story in brief. This book includes the great work done by the Pinsker Orphans Relief Fund of London that supported the Pinsker Orphanages and that brought out to London for adoption a group of 19 children in 1924 and a further group of 34 in 1926. It also tells the life stories of some of these rescued children and of some of the committee members who supported this fund. Lastly the book tells of the great work of the JDC, who not only supported the Pinsk Jewish Community, including the three Pinsker Orphanages, but who supported many hundreds of Jewish Communities, throughout the Pale of Settlement, with their orphanages, hospitals, schools, old age homes, soup kitchens, feeding programs and agricultural development and other programs. The Pinsker Orphans follows on from The Ochberg Orphans and expands upon the section Alter Bobrow and the Three Pinsk Orphanages in that book. The Ochberg Orphans and the Horrors From Whence They Came, published in 2011, details these horrors of the Pale of Settlement 1914-1922 and the help given by Jewish communities around the world. It includes the life story of Isaac Ochberg and those of 130 of the 181 Ochberg Orphans (Ukraine War and Pogrom Orphans) and the history of the South African Jewish Orphanage and Cape Jewish Orphanages later known as Arcadia and Oranjia respectively.
Publication Data:
Author(s): David Solly Sandler
Publisher: David Solly Sandler
Pages: 271
Language: en
Category: History
Genre: History, World, Jewish
ISBN: 0987106317
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