ORT Photo Collection.

This fonds contains photographs from the photo collection of the ORT headquarters in London. The photographs depicting ORT activities in Belgium bear the reference code “ORT/PH 22”. There are 97 photographs and 8 photo albums in total related to Belgium (see photos [ORT/PH] 22/001 to [ORT/PH] 22/105). The large majority of the material relates to ORT work in Brussels and Antwerp; there is 1 photo album concerning the “Farming school” (hachsharah center) in Kessel-Lo (22/007). We firstly note pictures/albums on classes organised for both children, young men and adults concerning dressmaking and general tailoring, fashion, carpentry, knitting, machine sewing, electro-metal workshops, radio, geometry, mechanics, woodworking, … The fonds also contains material on graduations and ORT exhibitions, i.a. in the Tachkemoni and Jesode-Hatora schools in Antwerp. We finally point out a photograph depicting the Friends of ORT in the former Belgian Congo (see 22/057). Some of the photographs are undated, but the majority of them cover the years ca. 1947-1959 (mainly late 1940s-early 1950s).