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Albert Einstein with refugee children
Photographer unknown
Contributor
Photographer unknown
Identifier
EB 134
Date
1949
Type
Image
Format
B&W
Repository
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
Collection
Photograph collection - Einstein-- EB Series-barn collection\19-EB PHOTOS with A.E.-9-10 inch (5 of 5-UJA 1949)
Rights
Permission to use this image must be requested from the Institute's Archives. Please contact archives@ias.edu.
Description
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. Kneeling on Einstein's right is the National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, William Rosenwald. United Service for New Americans, an agency of the UJA, brought the children to the United States. Seated on Einstein's right (and reaching out her hand) is his cousin, Elizabeth Kerzek. The two were distant relatives and hadn't met before. The name of the girl seated on Einstein's lap is Leonora Aragones and Victoria Lustig is standing on the far left. The others featured in this photograph have not been identified. Newspaper accounts of the occasion feature different images from the visit and credit the photographs to various sources, most often news agencies. (Note: this photograph is one of fifteen in the collection, EB 127-EB 141, taken on this occasion.)
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