The Denver Jewish news., 1921-02-02
Mrs.Anita MullerI,ea
of Vienna JeWry
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And. strange to say, tho scarcity set
in everywhere, when this woman want
ed it everything was at her disposal:
foOdstuffs and clothes, localities and
premis scs, doctors, nurses and all the
necessary implements technical ap-
partus. medicines, etc. So great was
her influence on public life and so
great was the trust of people to her
unremitting zeal for social work.
should ike to point out the follow
ing data and figures. Within three
years of the war, 3250 fugitive women
We're helped by her lying-in-hospital
institutions, the Mothers and Babies
with milk, foodstuffs, clothes and lir-
cn during the most difficult period
of the war; another great achieve
ment is the Orphans Home and the
Soup Kitchens for demobilized sol
diers and fugitives. Two buildings
were acquired for those purposes.
Anita Muller, who had II youth full
tf sunshine. also wants to see other
children bright and happy. Her chill
dren's homes are full of bright pictures
and the little ones are singing merry
songs She has paid out wages to
hundreds of working women for re-
fined luxuries, which she did nOs
know if they would be resOld, only
to save those women from starvation.
However, she is not the woman to be
satisfied with what she has achiev-
cd. Her activity of the last two years
overshadows in Importance all her
preceding work. 1t is to her great
efforts that 12,OOO Jewish children
nave been sent for recuperation to
Switzerland Holland. Denmark, Italy,
Croatia tTugoslavia), Germany.
Czecho- SlOvakia and England. where
they pick up wonderfully, and from
where they return in excellent health
and high spirit. Your correspondent
witnessed the other day n transport
of several hundred Jewish children
being sent off to the railway-station
for Holland. 1t included tiny children
of even years of age. The capital
'Ittl VI tiVSV
tic and expectant, marching two and
two to the trans ready for them, the
spirit of organization that had seized
them all, the splendid discipline of
the crowd under the supervision Of
only n few nurses and doctOrs-was
real sight. And need not describe
the immense delight of parents, chill
+!ren and relations, the pathetic scenes
when the old ones and youthful emf
grants meet again OH their return at
| the railway-station.
OF the two buildings Anita Muller
| has acquired for her purposes. one is
| entirely devoted for Jewish children.
1t is owing to the assistance from
| abroad, to the kindness of Jewish don
ors (including the American Joint Dis
tribution Committee at Vienna) tina;
she could carry out her great wOrl:
IN that house there is a childrcn'l
clinic, where children of every age re-
ceive medical help and treatment
furthermore it includes home for
children from the first TO their sixth
year. Also large rooms where the
children are fed; and the best part of
the large garden serves for the pur-
poses of the children's convalesccnt
home which is also placed in that
house. But to my idea, the most
splendid feature are the excursions of
the Jewish children to foreign coun-
tries. One must take into considera-
ton the dreadful poverty of the jew
ish masses here. The little ones have
no food no linen, no clothes. They
see nothing but want and gloom, not
{; ray of light or beauty. Then they
are sent abroad: and they are receiv-
cd into families of Jewish patricians-
for the first time they see the beau
ties of real home, they get an op-
portunity of bodily culture. At Vienna
their little souls have gone hungry
lust as their stOmaches have. And so
they also recuperate mentally. The
necessary numberless arrangements
for having 1900 children transporter!
abroad is not easy work. If the least
little thing goes wrong or is not done
methodically and in order, "A whole
'cxpcdition' may be upset. But Ii
never is. and this wonderful achieve
ment in most complicated business
is due to the genius of that woman, to
her unexampled organizing spirit and
ability, who knows everything, orders
everything, knows exactly where to
,,l,,n Nor nsSistn ia pbpyel Dy
everybody; in short, unites all the
threads of that most complicated lna-
chinery in her hands-like great
field marshal! One of the great Sc
s.l.I, l,ps,