Siegfried Lehman
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4 January 1892 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 13 February 1958 (aged 66) |
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.
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.
Chazon Umoreshet, Biography by Aya Lehman Schlair in Hebrew,2010
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