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Laura Margolis Jarblum (1903-1997) was the first female overseas representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the JDC's first female Country Director.
Laura Margolis Jarblum was the first female overseas representative of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). After World War II, she became JDC’s first female Country Director. Laura Margolis’s career with JDC spanned three continents.
Jan 17, 2012 · Laura Margolis Jarblum died September 9, 1997. The JDC’s historic archive details the plight of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, but only contains little photographic evidence of Laura Margolis’s crutial role.
Laura Margolis Jarblum has been largely overlooked by history, but her story is an important one. She worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee throughout four decades, serving around the world in places including Europe, Israel, Cuba, and China.
- Julie L. Kerssen
- 2000
Sep 22, 1997 · Laura Margolis, who helped rescue thousands of Jews fleeing persecution during World War II, died on Sept. 9 at the home of a nephew, James A. Margolis, in Brookline, Mass.
The name of Laura Margolis Jarblum is not widely known, but to those whose lives were impacted by her work, she is hard to forget. From the 1930s to the 1970s she
The story of Laura Margolis reads like an epic novel. She embodies what larger-than-life literary heroines are made of, though without embellishment, exaggeration, panache or hubris. She was the real thing.
