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Name
  
Siegfried Lehman


Died
  
June 13, 1958

Siegfried Lehman

Born
  
4 January 1892 (
1892-01-04
)
Berlin, Germany

Organizations founded
  
Ben Shemen Youth Village, Judisches Volksheim Berlin

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Siegfried Lehmann (Hebrew: זיגפריד להמן) (born 4 January 1892; died 13 June 1958) was an Israeli educator and founder and director of the Ben Shemen Youth Village.

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Biography

Lehmann was born in Berlin, Germany in 1892. After serving as a doctor in the German Army during World War I, he founded a Jewish orphanage in Berlin in 1916, and opened a shelter for Jewish war orphans in Kaunas in 1919. In 1927, he immigrated to Mandate Palestine, now Israel, and founded the Ben Shemen Youth Village, a large agricultural boarding school, situated adjacent to the moshav in Ben Shemen.

Awards

  • In 1957, Lehmann was awarded the Israel Prize in education.

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