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This topic involves 150 teens who escaped the Holocaust. Their ages ranged from 14 to 16 years old.

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The Legacy of Henrietta Szold: Youth Aliyah's Founding Story

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The Legacy of Henrietta Szold: Youth Aliyah's Founding Story

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The Legacy of Henrietta Szold: Youth Aliyah's Founding Story

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This event took place in 1933. This is also when Youth Aliyah was founded.

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The teens escaped by following the plan of the Youth division of the Jewish Agency. They boarded a train in Czechoslovakia leaving their family behind while they headed for Denmark.

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Youth Aliyah is a group that was founded in 1933. The group was able to save lives of many by sending groups of teens to safer places around the world. It also gave the teens a vital escape route.

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"The brave ones were our parents"

"They were so brave to say goodbye to us, only children, never to know id they were going to see us again"

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"There are more Czech teens who were saved by Denmark during the war, and I want to find them all"

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The Teens in the National Czech & Slovak Museum and Library

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The Teens in the National Czech & Slovak Museum and Library

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Where did some of the teens end up working? 

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Where did some of the teens end up working? 

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Some of the Czech teens ended up working in Natural Science or on large farms.

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In 1943, the Nazis suddenly announced that the Jews in Denmark were no longer free. The teens were smuggled out onto tiny fishing boats to Sweden.

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Some teens were able to find their parents after the war, and were also spared the fate of so many other Jews during the Holocaust.

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The teens lived in foster homes and worked on farms. They also grew a closer bond with each other.

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The Czech teens playing with each other through the fence

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The Czech teens playing with each other through the fence

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Shmulovich, Michal. “How 150 Czech Jewish teens escaped the Holocaust and found each other again, 70 years later.” The Times of Israel, The Times of Israel,

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-150-czech-jewish-teens-escaped-the-holocaust-and-found-each-other-again-70-years-later/. Accessed 4 March 2025.

“Youth Aliyah” Jewish Virtual Library, American- Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/youth-aliyah. Accessed 4 March 2025