Canadian Jewish Congress, Ethel Ostry’s office

At the initiative of the Jewish community’s representative body in Canada, founded in 1919, the Canadian government allowed about a thousand orphans from Europe to emigrate to Canada after World War II as part of the War Orphans Project. Manfred Saalheimer, born in Würzburg, was responsible for the implementation of the program and was supported by the Canadian social worker Ethel Ostry, who had her office in Munich. Between September 1947 and March 1952, 1,116 children from DP camps and children’s homes throughout Europe went to Canada.