Collection

Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level

Item

Material Type

graphic material

Physical Description

Photograph : Paper, cardboard ; Ht: 12 1/4 in. x W: 14 1/2 in.

Other Title Information

Documentary Artifact

Date

1928

Physical Condition

Good

Notes

b&w, large group of children and adults camp counselors are posing in front of trees. Children are taking part in a OSE Summer camp led by Dr Ghinda Rosenblatt. Dr Rosenblatt can be seen in the back row of the group, she is the third woman from the right. Next to her stands her husband Abraham Rosenblatt and in front of him, identified by number 8 written in blue ink is their daughter Shena. Narrative: The “Œuvre de secours aux enfants” (OSE) is a Jewish organization designed to help children. OSE was established in 1912 in St. Petersburg (Russia) by doctors to help disadvantaged Jewish populations. It was then called the “Society for the health protection of the Jewish population”, in Russian Obshchetsvo Zdravookhraneniya Yevreyiev, abbreviated OZE. It rescued thousands of Jewish children during the Second World War. Dr Ginda Kalujna Rosenblatt was in charge of the OSE children summer camp in Lipcani. Born in 1891, she was a graduate of the Women’s Medical Institute of Saint Vladimir University, Kiev. After receiving her degree, Dr. Rosenblatt was conscripted by and served in the Russian Army from 1917-1918, at first as an intern and then as a captain. After the war, she practiced medicine in Briceni and then Lipcani, both in Bessarabia, Romania (now Moldova). Dr. Rosenblatt and her family immigrated to Toronto in May, 1934. Although she fulfilled the requirements for an M.D. degree at the University of Toronto, she chose to devote the rest of her career to social work. Dr. Rosenblatt died in 1986.

Accession No.

2011X.310.031

Name Access

Sourkes, Shana

Places

Lipcani, Moldova (Romania), Europe

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Montreal Holocaust Museum

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