CENTOS (Organization)
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Name (Hebrew)
צנטוס (מטה החברה לטיפול ביתומים)
Name (Latin)
CENTOS (Organization)
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
Sources of Information
- Encyclopaedia Judaica 2007 online, 16 October 2015(CENTOS (Pol. Zwiazki Tow. Opieki nad sierotami Zyd. Rzecz. polskiej; Yid. Farband fun Zentrales far Yesoimim farsorgung in Poylen; "Federation of Associations for the Care of Jewish Orphans in Poland"); was set up in 1924; the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee transferred the care of orphans to Centos and provided some funding)
- Holocaust : the fate of European Jewry 1932-1945, 1990:page 190 (National Society for the Care of Orphans (Centrala Opieki nad Sierotami, or CENTOS); worked in cooperation with JDC)
- Encyclopedia of camps and ghettos 1933-1945, c2012:volume 2, page 415 (CENTOS (the Central Organization for Orphan Care) maintained in the health resort ghetto a shelter for child refugees)
- (Centos; akr.), właśc. Centrala Towarzystw Opieki nad Sierotami; Centrala Związku Towarzystw Opieki nad Sierotami i Dziećmi Opuszczonymi; nazywanego też czasem Związkiem Towarzystw Opieki nad Dziećmi i Sierotami [Żydowskimi] (jid., Farband far Kinder Szuc un Jatomim Ferzorgung) ( (Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute website, 16 October 2015) )
- OCLC, 16 October 2015(CENTOS (Organization))