Henrietta Szold

Prinz: „I met her in Berlin; she was an extraordinary person. [...] She was very American and very Jewish, tremendously effective and incredibly humble.“

1933

Gudrun Maierhof schreibt: "[Freier] also contacted Henrietta Szold and the labor movement in Palestine [around 1933]. She asked Szold, the founder of Hadassah, to take over responsibility for the teenagers arriving in Palestine from Europe. Although Szold was initially of the opinion that the plan was not feasible, she ultimately agreed to become the director of Youth Aliyah’s Jerusalem office and to coordinate accommodation for the young people in Palestine. As a result, she was frequently (and incorrectly) assumed to be the founder of the Youth Aliyah. Due to the clash between their very different personalities, these two valiant women rarely met. Despite their common goals, Recha Freier was repeatedly rebuffed when she tried to speak with Henrietta Szold. Neither the strong resistance that Recha Freier’s idea initially encountered nor the many subsequent difficulties and misunderstandings that beset her remarkable program prevented thousands of German teenagers from leaving Germany for Palestine in the next few years and thus saving their lives.

Bei der Veranstaltung handelte es sich um einen Empfang für Henrietta Szold und Elieser Kaplan