Item ID	23627
Title	Six-year-old Chaim Leitner, a post-TB patient, stands under a Norwegian flag in the doorway of his new home, where his family can permanently resettle.
Reference Code	NY_12730
Description	Chaim Leitner in the doorway of the resettlement housing provided by the Norwegian Government. Chaim's mother suffered from TB, which she contracted while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Chaim himself also became victim to tuberculosis. After both recovered in a JDC sanatorium, the Leitner family emigrated to Norway from the DP Camp Foehrenwald. Norway was one of the few countries to accept TB patients and their families, under a special agreement between the Norwegian government and JDC.
City / Town	Stepperund	similar items
Country	Norway	similar items
Decade	1950	similar items
Photo Date Description	c.1953	similar items
Photographer	Jerome Silberstein	similar items
Selected Search Code	Terra	similar items
Size	2 1/4 x 3 1/4
Format	Negative

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