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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Introduction -- pt. 1. Orphans in America. The Search for Solutions -- New York City in the Nineteenth Century -- The Twentieth Century -- pt. II. Raised by the Church. The Sisters of Mercy: A Tale of Two Cities -- My Earliest Years -- St. Mary of the Angel -- pt. III. Homes for Boys. St. John's Home for Boys -- St. Vincent's Home for Boys -- Growing Pains -- pt. IV. On My Own. Alone in the Real World -- Inventing Another New Life -- Milestones -- Reflections -- Postscript: September 11, 2001 -- Appendix A. Vinnie Boys in the World -- Appendix B. The Foundling Hospital -- Appendix C . Suggested Reading -- Index |
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In 1946 Edward Rohs was left by his unwed parents at the Angel Guardian Home to be raised by the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters hoped that the parents would one day return for him. In time they married and had other children, but Ed's parents never came back for him. And they never signed the legal papers so he could be adopted by another family. Raised by the Church chronicles the extraordinary life of Ed Rohs, a bright, mischievous boy who was raised in five institutions of the Catholic orphanage system in postwar Brooklyn, New York, from infancy in 1946 until he was discharged as an adult in 1965. Rohs was one of thousands of children taken in by Catholic institutions during the tumultuous post-WWII years: out-of-wedlock infants, children whose fathers had been killed in the war, and children of parents in crisis. Ed gives a brief history of each institution before describing that world--the Sisters and Brothers who raised him, the food, his companions, and the Catholic community that provided social and emotional support |
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Rohs, Edward, 1946-
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Rohs, Edward, 1946- fast |
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Orphans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
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Children -- Institutional care -- New York (State) -- New York
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Orphanages -- New York (State) -- New York
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Church work with orphans -- Catholic Church.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Children -- Institutional care
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Church work with orphans -- Catholic Church
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Orphanages
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Orphans
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New York (State) -- New York
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Estrine, Judith
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| ISBN |
9780823240258 |
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0823240258 |
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