"The Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans Home of New Orleans" by Marlene Trestman; LSU Press, with the assistance of the V. Ray Cardozier Fund and the Mike and Ayan Rubin Endowment for the ...

What was it like to live in a Duluth orphanage during the 1930s? Not bad, according to Father Richard Partika, who wrote the following recollections of St. James Orphans Home, which was on Woodland ...

James Anderson lived at the “colored orphans home” east of Terre Haute more than 60 years ago, but looking out over the wooded and hilly landscape where he spent much of his childhood, it “almost ...

You may be thinking of Little Orphan Annie or Oliver right now, or some cold governmental institution lacking heat, decent lighting and edible food. If your ancestor was an orphan, you may also be ...

The Genessee Home for Jewish Orphans, after fifty years of existence in this city has been closed as a result of the decision of the executive board of the Jewish Orphan Asylum Association of Western ...

A construction accident in 1915 on a New York City Street that killed the mother of an eight-year-old girl propelled a Black Virginia woman into a 38-year crusade to provide care for Staunton and ...