Helga Weiss' Teddy Bear Facebook Post
Eight-year-old Helga Weiss bid a tearful goodbye to her parents as she left Vienna to live with an American foster family. She traveled in a 1939 transport of 50 children arranged by Philadelphians Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus and Brith Sholom. Helga never saw her mother again, but her father managed to join her in America. As an adult, she trained service dogs and brought this bear with her when she visited schools to talk to children about the Holocaust.
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Photo Credit: Helga Weiss’s teddy bear, Vienna, Austria, ca. 1930. National Museum of American Jewish History, 2005.2.1. Gift of Helga E. Milburg in memory of Rosa and Emil Weiss.
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Helga Weiss' Teddy Bear Facebook Post
Helga Weiss' Teddy Bear Facebook Post
Eight-year-old Helga Weiss bid a tearful goodbye to her parents as she left Vienna to live with an American foster family. She traveled in a 1939 transport of 50 children arranged by Philadelphians Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus and Brith Sholom. Helga never saw her mother again, but her father managed to join her in America. As an adult, she trained service dogs and brought this bear with her when she visited schools to talk to children about the Holocaust. #OurSharedHeritage #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth Celebrate JAHM at JewishAmericanHeritage.org Photo Credit: Helga Weiss’s teddy bear, Vienna, Austria, ca. 1930. National Museum of American Jewish History, 2005.2.1. Gift of Helga E. Milburg in memory of Rosa and Emil Weiss.
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