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Sewing Class

Sewing Class

Joseph Sher was employed by ORTORT: (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training), an international organization for developing skilled trades and agriculture among Jews. ORT established a vocational training network for Jewish Displaced Persons. Source: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. to teach other survivors the trade of sewing. Rachel Sher is sitting in the second row in the center of the photograph. On the wall is a drawing of Theodor Herzl, the father of the modern State of Israel.

Photo Credit: Joseph Sher