Letter from Albert Einstein to Eduard (sic) Warburg alongside photograph of Albert Einstein with refugee children and JDC leader William Rosenwald in Princeton, NJ
As the Honorary President of the American Committee of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), which was devoted to the safeguarding of the health of Jews, Albert Einstein thanked the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) for helping French children escape to the United States. JDC played an active role in rescuing refugee children from internment camps in France and resettling them in America. At his home (112 Mercer Street) in Princeton, New Jersey, one day before his seventieth birthday, Albert Einstein is visited by a group of World War II European Jewish refugee children. Einstein
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About this artwork
- Title: Letter from Albert Einstein to Eduard (sic) Warburg alongside photograph of Albert Einstein with refugee children and JDC leader William Rosenwald in Princeton, NJ
- Artist: albert einstein
- Year: 1949
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives