Group    From 1665 

Hebra Gemilut Hasadim

Categories: Social Welfare

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This phrase translates as "Society for Deeds of Loving Kindness", a Jewish Benevolent Society. It was established on the site where Albert Stern House now is and included a hospital for sick poor and lying-in women.

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Hebra Gemilut Hasadim

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Spanish and Portuguese Jews - 2

The Jewish calendar has a different start year (hence the "5425 - 1665") 3,76...

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Frederick Nicholas Charrington

Frederick Nicholas Charrington

Renounced a brewing fortune to help the East End poor.  Born Bow Road, the heir to Charrington’s Brewery in Stepney.  He entered the business but, aged 19, experienced a religious conversion and be...

Person, Food & Drink, Jack the Ripper suspects, Philanthropy, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Friendly Female Society

Friendly Female Society

From Bridge to Nowhere: "The Female Friendly Society {sic} was started in 1802, by and for women, operating “by love, kindness, and absence of humbug”. It gave small grants to “poor, aged women of ...

Group, Gender Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Mr Robert Aviss

Mr Robert Aviss

Administrator of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Eddy Renton

Eddy Renton

Co-founder of the charity 'Kith and Kids' (with Doreen Collins) and 'Disability Law'.

Person, Children, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg

Born near Stockholm. Worked for an import-export company owned by a Jewish Hungarian. Travelling frequently to Hungary, he learned Hungarian and become joint owner of the company. In spring 1944 th...

Person, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Social Welfare, Hungary, Sweden

War dead, WW2
1 memorial