Carrying Hanukkah gifts to hospitalized servicemen, 1918. American Jewish Historical Society.

“Text on back of photograph: "1918 – Carrying Chanuka gifts to hospitalized servicemen at the Ninth Naval District Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois. Reading from your left to your right: 1. Louis Diamond (deceased), J.W.B. Field Representative at Great Lakes Naval Training Center ; 2. Mrs. Adolph Epstein (deceased), Racine, Wisconsin ; 3. Mrs. Ted Pritikin (Ruth Epstein), now living in Miami Beach, Florida ; 4. Mrs. Samuel Schwartz (deceased), wife of Waukegan Armed Services Committee Chairman ; officer and boy, unidentified ; 5. Mrs. M.J. Kaye, member of Waukegan Committee (deceased) ; 6. Mrs. Simon Gottlieb, Racine, Wisconsin (deceased) ; 7. unknown.”

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