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The Case of Hildy McCoy Certain omissions in your recording of the Hildy McCoy-Ellis adoption case week. July 18) require comment ... .Whatever Dr. Herman Hildy McCoy, the innocent bystander arranged the adoption, may say, the Probate Court has found that it was not until March 27, 1951, that Marjorie McCoy discovered that the Elh's family was Jewish. The child, Hildy, at that time was 5 weeks old and from that moment her mother has done everything possible to win back her child for placement in a Catholic home (not in an institution, as your story mentioned). In the months of May and June of 1951 both Dr. Sands and the Ellis attorney advised the Jewish couple to return the child and not allow her to become attached to the family... It is perfectly clear from the facts as given in the court record that the Ellis couple, in full knowledge of the requirements of the law, set out from the beginning to defy it. They intended to use the affections of a little child to assist them. They must bear the responsibility for the present heartache. Vkhy Rev. Msch. Francis J. Lam. Editor The Pilot Huston. Mass. The klea that any court would take a child from a loving home and place her in an orphanage is unbelievable ... Hildy's mother. Mrs. Doherty, although now married, still docs not want the cluld but would rather tear her from those she loves and who love her, and place her in an orphanage—all because of a difference in religion .. . In offering to raise Hildy [as a] Catholic the Ellises have "bent over backward" in an attempt to do what is desired by the mother. As a schoolteacher I can well imagine some of the upsetting and lasting effects on Hildy that this unfair separation would bring. LOIS E. Chicago. III. I profess to be a Catholic but I take great issue with the official Catholic archdioccsan newspaper The Boston Pilot. Just the thought of returning the child to the orphanage on Newgweek
Object Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961 |
Box Number | 42 |
Folder Number | 03 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Access | Request access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955; 1956; 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961 |
Box Number | 42 |
Folder Number | 03 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Description |
Activities Adoption General Files |
Access | Request access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Transcript | The Case of Hildy McCoy Certain omissions in your recording of the Hildy McCoy-Ellis adoption case week. July 18) require comment ... .Whatever Dr. Herman Hildy McCoy, the innocent bystander arranged the adoption, may say, the Probate Court has found that it was not until March 27, 1951, that Marjorie McCoy discovered that the Elh's family was Jewish. The child, Hildy, at that time was 5 weeks old and from that moment her mother has done everything possible to win back her child for placement in a Catholic home (not in an institution, as your story mentioned). In the months of May and June of 1951 both Dr. Sands and the Ellis attorney advised the Jewish couple to return the child and not allow her to become attached to the family... It is perfectly clear from the facts as given in the court record that the Ellis couple, in full knowledge of the requirements of the law, set out from the beginning to defy it. They intended to use the affections of a little child to assist them. They must bear the responsibility for the present heartache. Vkhy Rev. Msch. Francis J. Lam. Editor The Pilot Huston. Mass. The klea that any court would take a child from a loving home and place her in an orphanage is unbelievable ... Hildy's mother. Mrs. Doherty, although now married, still docs not want the cluld but would rather tear her from those she loves and who love her, and place her in an orphanage—all because of a difference in religion .. . In offering to raise Hildy [as a] Catholic the Ellises have "bent over backward" in an attempt to do what is desired by the mother. As a schoolteacher I can well imagine some of the upsetting and lasting effects on Hildy that this unfair separation would bring. LOIS E. Chicago. III. I profess to be a Catholic but I take great issue with the official Catholic archdioccsan newspaper The Boston Pilot. Just the thought of returning the child to the orphanage on Newgweek |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
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