CENTOS (Organization)

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Name (Hebrew)
צנטוס (מטה החברה לטיפול ביתומים)
Name (Latin)
CENTOS (Organization)
Name (Arabic)
צנטוס (מטה החברה לטיפול ביתומים)
Other forms of name
Centrala Opieki nad Sierotami
Centrala Towarzystw Opieki nad Sierotami
Centrala Związku Towarzystw Opieki nad Sierotami i Dziećmi Opuszczonymi
Central Organization for Orphan Care
Farband far Kinder Szuc un Jatomim Ferzorgung
Farband fun Zentrales far Yesoimim farsorgung in Poylen
Federation of Associations for the Care of Jewish Orphans in Poland
Związkiem Towarzystw Opieki nad Dziećmi i Sierotami
Zwiazki Tow. Opieki nad sierotami Zyd. Rzecz. polskiej
Start period
1924
Field of activity
Jewish orphans--Care
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 166835383
Wikidata: Q97585994
Library of congress: no2015138706
Sources of Information
Wikipedia description:

CENTOS (Polish: Centralne Towarzystwo Opieki nad Sierotami, also Związek Towarzystw Opieki nad Dziećmi i Sierotami; Yiddish: Farband far Kinder Szuc un Jatomim Ferzorgung; literally, Central Society for the Care of Orphans, or Central Union of Associations for the Care of Jewish Children and Orphans) was a Polish-Jewish children's-aid society. Founded in 1924, it became a "leading organization for Jewish childcare" in the Second Polish Republic and was highly active in the Warsaw Ghetto during The Holocaust in Poland.

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