"The Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans Home of New Orleans" by Marlene Trestman; LSU Press, with the assistance of the V. Ray Cardozier Fund and the Mike and Ayan Rubin Endowment for the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A Los Angeles man who was once an orphan in ...

What was it like to live in a Duluth orphanage during the 1930s? Not bad, according to Father Richard Partika, who wrote the following recollections of St. James Orphans Home, which was on Woodland ...

Fifteen Jewish children will be brought over from Germany and permanently cared for by the Milwaukee Jewish Orphan Home. Joseph Brindis, president of the board of directors, announced that a number of ...

Many children who grow up in Turkmenistan’s state-run orphanages end up living in retirement homes when they turn 18, says a woman who was raised in a Turkmen orphanage. By law, the Turkmen government ...