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ORT Technical Engineering School blue plaque

Blue plaque

Overview

ORT Technical Engineering School blue plaque is recorded as Blue plaque in England Leeds. This blue commemorative plaque records: ORT Technical Engineering School. An ORT school was established in Berlin in 1937 to provide a technical education for Jewish boys excluded from state schools.

Why it was made

The saved account records: This blue commemorative plaque records: ORT Technical Engineering School.

People and events

The saved account records: Most of the 106 boys lived here, while continuing their training at workshops in Roseville Avenue.

How it worked

The saved account records: An ORT school was established in Berlin in 1937 to provide a technical education for Jewish boys excluded from state schools.

What remains

The saved account records: fleeing the Nazis, in 1939 the school was relocated to Leeds.

Why it mattered

ORT Technical Engineering School blue plaque matters because its inscription ties a person, group, event or old local practice to this exact place. The source records: ORT Technical Engineering School. An ORT school was established in Berlin in 1937 to provide a technical education for Jewish boys excluded from state schools. fleeing the Nazis, in 1939 the school was relocated to Leeds. Most of the 106 boys lived here, while continuing their training at workshops in Roseville Avenue. 1940-42 The importance lies in the life remembered here, not in the plaque as a piece of metal.

History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.

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