# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S657
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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS 657

Vomen’s Missionary League towards furnishing relief by means
f layettes and children’s clothing and medical kits, moneys, and
ther items, cannot be overestimated. However, the chaotic con-
itions prevalent throughout Central Europe during the most of
6 prohibited the formation of any definite plans as far as direct
ef to orphanages was concerned. The many societies continued,
efore, to solicit funds for the orphanages with the intent of
tilizing such moneys as soon as the status of various orphanages
sbecame more definite.

Beginning November of 1946, various orphans’ homes were
pened in Germany. One is in Bagband, capable of housing 250
children. Near Heidelberg these additional homes have been
sopened: Wolfschlucht, Waldesruh, and Koenigsstuhl. In these in-
“stitutions we have about eighty children. Another orphanage is
located in the hills of Munich. For the time being, this is used as
convalescent home for patients of incipient tuberculosis. In
Berlin, Dr. Petersen has established an orphanage which can house
“seventy children. Due to Russian restrictions, we have some dif-
‘ficulty in furnishing him with the necessary equipment. Another
orphanage has opened near Giessen, about forty miles from the
city of Frankfurt. Originally this institution was used as a furlough
resort for German fliers. The best functioning and perhaps best
“equipped institution is at Sperlingshof, a home that was founded
~already after the first World War. Here are about thirty children,
-all provided for.

; In addition to these orphanages in Germany, we are supporting
a home in Paris. This home is under the management of the Rev.
E. P. Kreiss and holds about forty children.

-In Poland we are helping to feed and clothe two orphanages not
far from Warsaw. They are not, however, under our jurisdiction,
but under the care of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Poland.
‘In the winter of 1946 we sent various shipments of food and clothing
also to Riatula, an orphanage in Finland.

All the Emergency Planning Council’s work for orphanages is
confronted with the difficulty of shipping food, clothing, bedding,
and institutional equipment. Military restrictions do not permit the
sending by mail of materials to other than individuals. Exceptions
have been made in some instances, but until such curtailments are
lifted, the development of these orphanages will be greatly

hampered.
Radio

Bringing the pure Word of God to vanquished and stricken
nations by means of radio has been the aim of the Emergency
Planning Council from the very incipiency of the European relief
work. In the spring of 1945 (April), the Lutheran Laymen’s

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