An important photo album from the estate of Gerda Ochs - the housemother of the Frankfurt orphanage in Kfar Hasidim, and the national supervisor on the care of the religious youth aliyah children. In the album, about 90 rare photographs of boys and girls from the early days of the religious youth village near Kfar Hasidim established by the couple Ochs, photographs of Gerda Ochs and her husband Rabbi David Ochs in Kfar HaNoar, activities with students, group photographs of counselors and students in the youth village, a young couple On their way to the canopy in the youth village, and more. also appear rare early photographs from the time of the couple's stay in Germany before the Holocaust, from the couple's wedding day in Berlin in 1931, and more.
Gerda Tziporah Ochs [1909-1999]: Born in Berlin, the youngest of the eight children of the Rau family. Her father Raphael worked as a physician in Berlin until the Nazis came to power. Her older brother Arthur (Aaron) ran the German branch of the "Eretz Israel Office for the Immigration of Jews to Eretz Israel" after he was fired as a judge when the Nazi regime rose. Another brother, the famous architect Heinz Rao, one of the leaders of the international style in the Land of Israel and one of the pioneers of modern Jerusalem planners in the early years of the state.
Ochs studied law at the University of Berlin and married Rabbi Dr. Ochs after graduating from the University of Würzburg, and attended the Rabbinical Seminar für das Orthodoxe Judenthum. In 1932, the couple moved to Königsberg in East Germany, where Rabbi Ochs was appointed. Rabbi Ochs was the last rabbi of Leipzig, and also served as chairman of the Brit Halutzim religious movement in Leipzig until they left Germany in late 1938. After Rabbi Ochs survived the Nazi clutches (see previous item), the couple moved to London and in early 1939 immigrated to the land of Israel, and settled in the religious youth village in Kfar Hasidim, where she worked as a counselor, as a storekeeper and as the housemother of the immigrants, including the orphans of Frankfurt. She will later serve as the national supervisor of the care of the children of the religious youth aliyah. Before us many photographs from this period of Kfar Hasidim.
In 1946, the couple moved to Tel Aviv. Ochs was one of the founders of "Reut - Women's Social Service", an organization established to help Holocaust survivors who came to Israel, one of the oldest and largest organizations in Israel in the fields of welfare and health. In 1989, she won the title of "Dear Tel Aviv". Gerda Ochs passed away in Jerusalem on November 26, 1999.
Varios sizes. Some of the photographs appear in several copies. The photos are arranged in a 25x20 cm. album. general condition very good. See also previous item.
