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Gibor Teller
Gibor Teller

Gibor Teller

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Date1946-04-08
Mediumphotograph
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Robert Marx, Yaffa Eliach Collection donated by the Center for Holocaust Studies
Object number5236.86
Object DescriptionYoung man wearing a belted jacket over a dark shirt, jodphurs and tall leather boots, overseas cap. Smiling, holding a cigarette in right hand. Studio portrait, neutral background. Inscription on back is in Hebrew, nice calligraphy. Translation: [to] Our Dear Director! I cannot express my feelings and thanks for all the good deeds which you have done for our benefit. May God reward you. For eternal remembrance from Gibor Teller. DP Children's Center Indersdorf April 8, 1946.
Keywords
  • Orphanages
  • Children
  • Indersdorf
NotesAndre Salvatore Marx was born in Bettemberg, suburb of Luxembourg City, in 1912. Marx worked for UNRRA as a social worker, with Jewish children, as director of the children's home in Kloster Indersdorf, Germany, listed as DP Children’s Center, UNRRA Team 182 in the Landsberg area. There he was instrumental in recreating Jewish life for the orphans, and sending many of them to Palestine with the Bricha. He did this work until Sept. 1947.

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