Canadian Jewish Congress, Office of Ethel Ostry
After the Second World War, the Canadian government allowed around one thousand orphans from Europe to emigrate to Canada as part of the War Orphans Project, which was initiated by the Jewish community in Canada and founded in 1919. Manfred Saalheimer, who was born in Würzburg, was in charge of implementing the program. He 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 from all over Europe came to Canada.
Vaad Hatzala
Rescue committee founded in 1939 by Orthodox rabbis in the USA and Canada with the aim of rescuing Eastern European rabbis and religious students. After 1945, the Vaad Hatzala provided spiritual and material support to the DPs in the DP camps. In Munich, the organization ran an office at Bachmairstraße 12, where the Deputy Director for Germany, Rabbi Aviezer Bustin, also lived.
Editorial office of the newspaper Undzer Veg
The newspaper was published as an organ of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews from October 1945 to January 1950, with a circulation of up to 30,000. From the first issue, the paper was printed in Yiddish with Hebrew letters. As there was not enough typeset, most of the Yiddish DP newspapers had to use the Roman alphabet. The transcription was based on Polish phonetics.
Therese Giehse
This digital biography about Therese Giehse was created as part of a P-seminar at the Theresia Gerhardinger Gymnasium am Anger in 2022 in Munich, with the kind support of the Monacensia in the Hildebrandhaus. Thanks to the support of the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Jüdisches Museum München, we, the participants of the P-Seminar, were able to deal intensively with Therese Giehse's life and work.