Naomi Segal Bronstein from Canada Saved Thousands of Cambodian Orphans, Including 65 from the Khmer Rogue Days
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Naomi Segal Bronstein from Canada Saved Thousands of Cambodian Orphans, Including 65 from the Khmer Rogue Days
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...In 1969-70, the United States escalated the war by secretly bombing Cambodia. To add to the chaos, the extremist Communist Khmer Rouge were attacking from the countryside. Naomi decided to make a trip into Cambodia where she found a large number of malnourished and sick babies abandoned by their parents fleeing from the Khmer Rouge. Naomi started an orphanage in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh that she called “Canada House”. Canada House received food donated by Canadians. On one occasion, a jar of gefilte fish arrived, presumably because the donor knew Naomi was Jewish. The staffer who received the gefilte fish, not knowing what it was gave it to the local priest to feed his cat. The cat loved the gefilte fish.
As the Khmer Rouge advanced upon Phnom Penh in 1975, all Westerners were advised to leave. Sixty-five of the babies had paperwork for adoption in Canada and Naomi was determined to save them from the Cambodian genocide of 1.7 million people that was about to begin. The only way out was by air to Saigon, where they were flown to under fire by an American Air Force plane...
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2015/11/01 ... f-orphans/
...In 1969-70, the United States escalated the war by secretly bombing Cambodia. To add to the chaos, the extremist Communist Khmer Rouge were attacking from the countryside. Naomi decided to make a trip into Cambodia where she found a large number of malnourished and sick babies abandoned by their parents fleeing from the Khmer Rouge. Naomi started an orphanage in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh that she called “Canada House”. Canada House received food donated by Canadians. On one occasion, a jar of gefilte fish arrived, presumably because the donor knew Naomi was Jewish. The staffer who received the gefilte fish, not knowing what it was gave it to the local priest to feed his cat. The cat loved the gefilte fish.
As the Khmer Rouge advanced upon Phnom Penh in 1975, all Westerners were advised to leave. Sixty-five of the babies had paperwork for adoption in Canada and Naomi was determined to save them from the Cambodian genocide of 1.7 million people that was about to begin. The only way out was by air to Saigon, where they were flown to under fire by an American Air Force plane...
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2015/11/01 ... f-orphans/
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Re: Naomi Segal Bronstein from Canada Saved Thousands of Cambodian Orphans, Including 65 from the Khmer Rogue Days
So is this who we blame for prahok?
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Re: Naomi Segal Bronstein from Canada Saved Thousands of Cambodian Orphans, Including 65 from the Khmer Rogue Days
Hello, that's my mom holding that baby. Can someone help me get more information on this picture?
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Re: Naomi Segal Bronstein from Canada Saved Thousands of Cambodian Orphans, Including 65 from the Khmer Rogue Days
Did you contact the publisher of the photo? Are/were you the baby she's holding? What's your mom's name? Is she still alive?JohnnieJAlvarez wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:49 pm Hello, that's my mom holding that baby. Can someone help me get more information on this picture?
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Re: Naomi Segal Bronstein from Canada Saved Thousands of Cambodian Orphans, Including 65 from the Khmer Rogue Days
Unfortunately, that photo does not appear on the linked article, nor on the Wayback Machine copy.LamarFreddie wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:06 amDid you contact the publisher of the photo? Are/were you the baby she's holding? What's your mom's name? Is she still alive?JohnnieJAlvarez wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:49 pm Hello, that's my mom holding that baby. Can someone help me get more information on this picture?
However, this link has more images of her which might lead to more information.
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Re: Naomi Segal Bronstein from Canada Saved Thousands of Cambodian Orphans, Including 65 from the Khmer Rogue Days
Why would someone post something like this and not bother to follow up at all?JohnnieJAlvarez wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:49 pm Hello, that's my mom holding that baby. Can someone help me get more information on this picture?
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