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Cooking in the Kitchen of the Children's Home, Selvino, Italy, c1946
Cooking in the Kitchen of the Children's Home, Selvino, Italy, c1946

Cooking in the Kitchen of the Children's Home, Selvino, Italy, c1946

Preparing a meal at the kitchen of the children's home in Selvino, Italy, c.1946.
(The Oster Visual Documentation Center, Beit Hatfutsot,
courtesy of the Committee of Former Selvino Children, through Alexander Sarel)
Image Purchase: For more details about image purchasing Click here, make sure you have the photo ID number (as appear above)

Selvino

During the years 1945-1948 functioned at Selvino in the north of Italy a home for Jewish children, refugees of the horrors of the war in Europe. The home was set up and run initially by volunteers from Eretz Israel in the British army, soldiers of the Royal Engineers Company 745 (Solel Boneh company), that was stationed at that time in the north of Italy. The manager of the home was the late Moshe Ze'iri, a soldier in the company, who returend to Selvino immediately after his discharghe from the army in Eretz Israel in 1946.
During the three years some 800 children aged 5-17, stayed at the home for various periods of time, until they were moved further in the routes of "illegal" immigration to Eretz Israel.

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Cooking in the Kitchen of the Children's Home, Selvino, Italy, c1946
Preparing a meal at the kitchen of the children's home in Selvino, Italy, c.1946.
(The Oster Visual Documentation Center, Beit Hatfutsot,
courtesy of the Committee of Former Selvino Children, through Alexander Sarel)
Image Purchase: For more details about image purchasing Click here, make sure you have the photo ID number (as appear above)

Selvino

Selvino

During the years 1945-1948 functioned at Selvino in the north of Italy a home for Jewish children, refugees of the horrors of the war in Europe. The home was set up and run initially by volunteers from Eretz Israel in the British army, soldiers of the Royal Engineers Company 745 (Solel Boneh company), that was stationed at that time in the north of Italy. The manager of the home was the late Moshe Ze'iri, a soldier in the company, who returend to Selvino immediately after his discharghe from the army in Eretz Israel in 1946.
During the three years some 800 children aged 5-17, stayed at the home for various periods of time, until they were moved further in the routes of "illegal" immigration to Eretz Israel.