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Lot #    24084
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 11:42:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    If there's room in your heart/there's room in your
Author    [Only Ed. - Holocaust] Saul Hayes
City    [Montreal]
Publisher    Canadian Jewish Congress
Publication Date    [1945-6?]
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only edition. [6] ff. illus. 250:190 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description
   A booklet put out by the Canadian Jewish Congress encouraging families to consider taking in a Jewish child from a European DP camp into their homes. It was noted that most of the children were past the age of adoption and also that no legal obligations would be imposed. Brief verbal descriptions of a few typical children are given as examples.

"The Canadian Jewish Congress, as part of it's work for the rehabilitation of European Jewry, has secured permission for 1000 such children --boys and girls--up to the age of 18, to enter Canada, on the understanding that homes will be found for them..."

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
Other:    Holocaust
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica