"Ahawah" Orphanage in Berlin - Collection of Letters and Documents

Collection of letters and family photographs that belonged to Beate Berger, director of "Ahawah" orphanage, and her family. Berlin-Israel, second decade of 20th century through mid-20th century. German, some English and Hebrew.
The collection includes about 43 letters (some handwritten and some typewritten) and postcards, most of them are family letters, signed by Beate Berger, director of "Ahawah" orphanage in Berlin, her sister Else Berger, her brother Rudolph Berger, other family members, and others. Beate Berger mentions in some of the letters the "Ahawah" orphanage - explicitly or indirectly - mainly with regards to donations to the institute or its current conduct (the content of the letters was not thoroughly examined).
"Ahawah" orphanage was founded in Berlin at the end of World War I as a home for children of East European refugees and later became an orphanage that educated children from German communities. Beate Berger, born in 1886, started to manage the orphanage in 1922. She was known for her progressive educational attitude and as a person believing in clear limits and uncompromising education on one hand and caring for a good and protected life for the children in the orphanage on the other hand. When persecutions of Jews in Germany increased in the 1930s she acted tirelessly for relocating the orphanage children to Palestine and recruited for that purpose the help of Henrietta Szold and Aliyat HaNo'ar. Berger re-established the home in Kiryat Bialik and was the director until she passed away in 1940.
Enclosed: ten family photographs and three newspaper articles, in German. * Position Paper addressed to Yehudah Leib Magness, 1938, about founding a new party by the name of "Bene Chorin". * The book "Beit Ahawah" by Ayelet Bargur, granddaughter of Beate Berger's nephew, regarding the orphanage as well as the life and activities of Berger (published by Yediot Achronot-Hemed books, Tel-Aviv, 2013).
Total of 43 letters, documents and postcards, and 10 photographs. Good overall condition. Size and condition vary.