PLEASE NOTE ---All orphanages with an asterisk (*) are succeeded by the JCCA/Jewish Child Care Association of New York and may be found on the JCCA Page.---All others may be found on the Jewish Orphanages in the United States Page.---Jewish Social Services may be found on both of the above pages.---Orphan Train Information may be found on the Orphans and Archives: Records and Holdings Page and also on the Other Genealogical Resources Page: Section "J" (Orphans and Orphan Trains). |
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles:
1908 Jewish Orphan's Home of Southern California now known as Vista Del
Mar
1909 Hamburger Home For Young Women presently known as Aviva Center
Oakland:
1871 Home for Aged Women and Children under auspices of the Ladies Relief
Society of Oakland
San Francisco:
1850 Homewood Terrace
1871 Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society
1921 New Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum
------Eureka Benevolent Society
MARYLAND
Baltimore:
1873-1921 Hebrew Orphan Asylum
1900-1921 Hebrew Children Sheltering and Protective Association (Betsy Levy
Memorial Home)
1913 Daughters Of Hannah
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston:
1822 Hebrew Orphan Asylum
1889 Hecht Neighborhood House founded as
------Hebrew Industrial School
1890 ? Boston Jewish Orphanage (No Information)
1900 Home for Jewish Children
1918 Jewish Children's Bureau Of Boston
------Jewish Child Welfare Association was a residential care facility for
dependent children.
???? Hebrew Home for Desitute Children
Brookline:
1977? Ledgewood Home for Jewish Children
Worcester:
1916 Jewish Home For Aged And Orphans
MICHIGAN
Detroit:
1918 Detroit Hebrew Orphan Home
-------Detroit Hebrew Infants Orphans Home later known as Jewish
Children's Home
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis:
1918 Jewish Family Welfare Association
1919 Sheltering Home For Homeless Jewish Children a/k/a
------Jewish Shelter Home For Children
Saint Paul:
1911 Jewish Welfare Association
MISSOURI
Kansas City:
1919 Sisters' Aid Society and Orphans' Home a/k/a Sisters' Aid Jewish Orphans'
Home Guardian Society for Jewish Children and/or Jewish Children's Home
St Louis:
1909 Jewish Orphan's Home a/k/a Jewish Orphan's Home of St Louis
1910 Jewish Shelter Home
1920s Jewish Children's Home
NEBRASKA
Omaha:
1919 Jewish Community Center and Welfare Federation
NEW JERSEY
Clifton originally in Patterson:
1921 Daughters of Miriam Home for the Aged and Orphans
Jersey City:
1915 Hebrew Orphans Asylum
------Hebrew Orphans Home
------Hebrew Orphans Home Of Hudson County
------Hebrew Home For Orphans and Aged of Hudson County
Newark:
1861 Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society
(Original named in German) Orphans boarded with private families
1886 Bet Yetomin
------Hebrew Orphan Asylum
1923 Hebrew Orphanage And Sheltering Home
NEW YORK
*JCCA Is the successor organization
to the following orphanages, societies and others in the New York area which
includes the five boroughs and Westchester County. Historical information
on most JCCA orphanages are found on the JCCA Page of the web site. (JCCA
Institutions are marked with *).
Bronx:
*1895 Hebrew Home For Infants [HHI]
--------Hebrew Infant's Asylum [HIA]
--------Hebrew Infant's Home [HIH]
--------Hebrew Kindergarten & Infant's Home [HKIH] (and Far Rockaway,
NY)
1903 Hebrew Children's Home (Bronx and Rockaway Beach, NY)
*1905 Home For Hebrew Infants
1933 Shield Of David Home For Orphan Girls
*1938 Edenwald School (HOA Auxiliary)
--------Edenwald School for Boys
--------Edenwald School for Girls (also in Pleasantville, NY)
Brooklyn:
*1878 Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum
[BHOA]
1914 Council Home For Jewish Girls (Brooklyn And Jamaica, NY)
*1917 Independent Daughters Of Israel Orphan
Asylum Of Brooklyn
*1919 Infants Home Of Brooklyn
1919 Pride Of Judea known first as Israel Orphan Asylum Of Brownsville and
East New York
*1921 Children's Day & Night Shelter
Childville
*1921 Daughters of Zion, Hebrew Day & Night
Nursery
*1954 Girls Club of Brooklyn [BHOA]
*Jewish Youth Services of Brooklyn
*1946 Children's Service Bureau [BHOA]
1977? Ohel Children's Home
Buffalo:
1879 Jewish Orphans Asylum Society affiliated with Jewish
Orphans Asylum
of Western New York at Rochester
1927 Jewish Mothers' Club Nursery and Temporary Home;
Jewish Mothers' Club;Jewish Welfare Service
Far Rockaway:
1914 Children's Haven
*1954 Gustave Hartman Home for Children (and
Yonkers, NY)
Hawthorne:
*1906 Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls School
and Jewish Board Of Family & Children's Services
*Jewish Protectory and Aid Society
Lawrence:
*1919 Friendly Home For Girls
New York City:
*1822 Jewish Child Care Association
of New York
*1822 Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City Of New
York (HOA)
*1832 Hebrew Benevolent & Orphan Asylum
and
Hebrew Benevolent & Orphan Society of the City of New York
*1896 Jewish Board Of Guardians
*1902 Jewish Big Brothers Association
*1913 Hebrew National Orphan Home (HOH) (a/k/a
Homecrest) (See Yonkers)
*1913 Fellowship House For Boys
*1913 Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Of
NY
*1916 Wise (Louise) Services
*Jewish Unmarried Mother's Services
*Manhattan Residence (Wise Services)
*1919 Central Committee For Friendly Aid to
Jewish Girls
*1919 Corner House
*1919 Friendly Home for Girls (auxiliary of
HOA)(also Lawrence, NY)
*1919 Home for Boys of the Junior League of
HOA
*1921 Israel Orphan Asylum [IOA]
*1921 Free Synagogue Child Adoption Committee
*1922 Jewish Children's Clearing Bureau
Joint Planning Service For Jewish Young Women
*1960 Hartman-Homecrest or Hartman Home for
Children
*????Wayside Day Nursery (No information
found)
Other New York, NY Jewish Orphanages Not Associated
With JCCA:
1878 Lady Deborah Nursery and Child's Protectory a/k/a
Lady Deborah Nursery
Deborah Nursery and Child's Protectory
The Ladies' Deborah Nursery
Lady Deb Nursery
1889 Educational Alliance, Inc. a/k/a Hebrew Institute
1911 Busker Orphan Asylum Foundation
1914 Harlem Hebrew Day And Night Nursery possibly akin to Harlem Hebrew
Day Nursery
1915 Brisker's Orphan Home
1923 Ninth Street Day Nursery and Orphan's Home a/k/a
Associated Hebrew Day Nursery; Hebrew Day Nursery
---WIDOW & ORPHAN SOCIETIES
???? Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society
???? Judah Tourah Widow and Orphan Fund
???? Isachar Widows and Orphans Benevolent Society
1851,1854 Hebron Society for the Support of Widows
and Orphans,
of Hebron Lodge #5, B'nai B'rith.
1848 The Montefiore Widow and Orphan and Benefit Society of the City of
New York, later known as the Montefiore Society [not specifically for widow
and orphan benefits].
1849 Widow & Orphans Society B'nai B'rith
1850 New York Hebrew Sick Burial Widow and Orphans Society
1851 Lebanon Widow and Orphan Society (incorp. ), of Lebanon Lodge #9, B'nai
B'rith.
1851 Zions Widow and Orphan Society, of Zion Lodge #2, B'nai B'rith.
1852 Ber Sheba Widow and Orphan Society, of B'er Sheba Lodge #11,B'nai B'rith.
1857 Manhattan Widow & Orphan Assurance Society. [known to be a Jewish
organization]
1857 Ruben's Widow and Orphans Benevolent Society of New York, of Reuben
Lodge #3, Free Sons of Israel.
1857 Widow and Orphan Fund of Jordan Lodge No. 15, I.O.B.B. [B'nai B'rith].
1858 Levy Widow and Orphan Society, of Levy Lodge #5, Free Sons of Israel.
1858 Noah Widow and Orphan Assurance Society, of Noah Lodge #1,Free Sons
of Israel.
1858 Phoenix Widows and Orphans Aid Society
1858 Washington Widow and Orphans Benevolent Society of New York, of Washington
Lodge #19, B'nai B'rith.
1859 Jew's Asylum for Widows and Orphans
1860 Aryeh Widow and Orphan Association, of Aryeh Lodge #6, Free Sons of
Israel.
---REFUGEE ORGANIZATIONS:
1935 HIAS
1940 European Jewish Children's Aid,Inc.
1946 United States Committee for the Care of European Children
Pleasantville:
*1912 Pleasantville Cottage School
Rochester:
1877 Jewish Orphan Asylum of Western New York
outgrowth of above Jewish Children's Bureau
1912 Jewish Sheltering Home a/k/a 1914 Jewish Children's Home
Staten Island:
*1895 Lake View Home
*1979 Geller House
*Jewish Girls Services
Syracuse:
1919 Jewish Orphan Asylum at the Jewish Communal Home
Yonkers:
*1920 Hebrew National Orphan Home originally
founded in NYC in 1913 *Hartman-Homecrest
*1954 Homecrest (a/k/a Hebrew National Orphan
Home)
OHIO
Cincinnati:
1892 The Jewish Foster Home
???? Orthodox Jewish Orphan Home
Cleveland:
1868 Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum
a/k/a Jewish Orphan Home; Bellefaire
1919-1920 Orthodox Jewish Orphan Asylum
Columbus:
1919 Jewish Infant's Home of Ohio
1942 Jewish Welfare Federation
OREGON
Portland :
1919 Jewish Sheltering Home a/k/a Jewish Shelter Home
1919 Jewish Orphan's Home Association
PENNSYLVANIA
Erie:
1912 B'nai B'rith Orphanage and Home for Friendless Children
a/k/a B'nai B'rith Home For Children
Philadelphia:
1822-1966 Jewish Family Service
1855-1971 Association For Jewish Children
1855 Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum (of Philadelphia)
Home For Hebrew Orphans
Foster Home For Hebrew Orphans
Northeastern Orphan Home
The Homewood School
Bureau for Jewish Children
Juvenile Aid Society
Pittsburgh:
1891 J. M. Gusky Hebrew Orphanage and Home
1914 Jewish Home for Babies and Children
Scranton:
1921 Jewish Home for The Friendless
RHODE ISLAND
Providence:
1908 Jewish Orphanage of Rhode Island
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston:
1801 Hebrew Orphan Society
TEXAS
Houston:
1933 Wolff Memorial Home
WISCONSIN
Milwaukee:
1919 Society for the Care of Dependent Jewish Children
1923 Jewish Children's Home
Milwaukee Jewish Children's Home
JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES STATES ONLY
The following states had Jewish social service agencies that handled adoptions
and foster care for Jewish children. The agencies will be listed with their
respective city as no orphanages have been found thus far.
[Note: Many cities in states with orphanages, also had Jewish Social Service Agencies, but there are too many to list. Some of these agencies also handled adoptions a well. There are and were other agencies in the cities below, listing is of the earliest found agency.]
ALABAMA
Birmingham: Jewish Federation
ARIZONA
Phoenix: Jewish Family & Child.
Svcs. 1950s
Tucson: 1956 Jewish Family Service
DELAWARE
Wilmington: 1918 Hebrew Charity Association
FLORIDA
Miami Beach: 1978 Jewish Family Child.
Svcs.
Palm Beach: 1978 Jewish Family Child.Cntr.
IOWA
Des Moines: 1955 Jewish Social Service
Sioux City: 1919 United Hebrew Charity Assn.
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City: Jewish Comm.Council
TENNESSEE
Chattanooga: Jewish Welfare Federation
Memphis: Fed. of Jewish Charities
Nashville: Hebrew Relief Society
VIRGINIA
Norfolk: Jewish Family Service
Richmond: Jewish Family Service
WASHINGTON
Seattle: Jewish Family Child. Svcs.
ORPHAN TRAIN STATES WITH POSSIBLE JEWISH ORPHANS
ARKANSAS
ILLINOIS
IOWA
KANSAS
LOUISIANA
MINNESOTA
MISSOURI
NEBRASKA
OKLAHOMA
TEXAS
SOUTH DAKOTA
JEWISH INSTITUTIONS PARTICIPATING IN ORPHAN
TRAINS
The following is a partial list of Jewish institutions that Orphan
Train children came from in the New York area:
?Berachah Orphanage (not proven to have been a Jewish Orphanage)
Beth Israel Hospital
Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Edenwald School For Boys
Fellowship House For Boys
Hartman Home For Children
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
Jewish Board Of Guardians Jewish Protectory & Aid Society
Mount Sinai Hospital
Ninth Street Day Nursery & Orphans Home
These institutions, both public and private, and others of all denominations, provided "orphans" to be sent west to new homes on the Orphan Trains.