Pittsburgher Henry Ellenbogen wielded pen, paper to save Jews in 1930s. Now you can read how.
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Henry Ellenbogen sent this portrait of himself to his mother in 1924. Within 10 years, the aspiring attorney would be serving Pittsburgh in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Judi Ellenbogen, 84, grew up not knowing about the work her father did to save Jews in Europe as World War II approached. “One of the reasons I wanted to come back is that I thought there was something unfinished,” she told TribLive. “And I wanted to finish it.”
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Judi Ellenbogen didn’t grow up hearing about the immigrant experience from her father, who was born in Vienna nearly 125 years ago and moved to Pittsburgh in his college years.
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Judi Ellenbogen discovered her father’s papers in 1985 after he died. She shared recollections of him during a visit to her Shadyside apartment.
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In this circa 1928 photo, Henry Ellenbogen (left) meets with Pennsylvania coal miners after some were accused of inciting a riot.
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An undated photo of the late Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Henry Ellenbogen, who served three terms in Congress as a progressive New Dealer, followed by four decades on the bench in Pittsburgh.
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Henry Ellenbogen (left), who was born in Vienna but spent most of his life in the Pittsburgh area, receives a Pittsburgh Press charitable award in 1970 from Richard L. Macino.
