AIM 1111111111111111111F , 4 German Jewess, 65, Plays Vital Role In Bundestag- 's Idemnification Program . DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-63 Friday, September 11, 1953 rolled member of the Social Democratic Party since 1905, By SAM MILLER her social work for the Workers' (Copyright, 1953. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) Relief Organization earned her BONN—Jeanette Wolff, pres- Long before Hitler, she was high posts in the juvenile-aid ent-day Germany's most promi- well-known in her native West- departments of the Bochoit and nent Jewess and the only Ger- phalia for her dedication both , Dortmund city administrations. man legislator playing a. lead- to Jewish communal affairs and From 1912 on she. was also a ing role in Jewish organizational to socialist politics, then as now pillar of the Jewish community life, is 65 this week. a rare combination. An en- and a zealous laborer in the vineyard of the Jewish "Cen- ■ tralverein." 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