“It was such an escape, and so different from the regular narratives that you had about mom and dad,” Turner says of the cartoon ... proprietor of an orphanage for teenage girls, the Starlight ...

Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice, by Christine Kenneally, and We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child ...

But institutions like orphanages are not equipped to provide the individual love, care, and sense of belonging that only a family can offer. The parents and children experience significant loss ...

Blumenthal’s, as it was known, was not only a place of refuge for these children, but a home that provided food, shelter, care – and the security of a loving family. The Zion Orphanage now ...