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MARGARET TIETZ LEADERSHIP AWARD MargaretTietz was a well-known much beloved and influential person in the social work field first in her native Germany and then in the United States after the Second World War. She began her volunteer work in 1912 with social welfare organizations in Cologne Germany by teaching underprivileged children. During World War Ishe served with an organization that provided Jewish nurses to hospitalsco- founded an organization providing homemaker servicesand worked with the Cologne administrator of social work. Soon after Hitlers rise to power in 1933Margaret and her family were forced to leave Germany and settled in Holland. She immediately became active in refugee and social work organizations helping other refugees and emigrs fleeing Nazi persecution. Margaret and her family emigrated to Palestine in early 1940 and settled in Jerusalem where she continued to aid refugees. She emigrated to the United States in 1947.Her already-formidable reputation preceded her and she became the administrator of Newark House an old age cooperative home located in Newark New Jersey. Her goal for Newark House residents was to make their life worthwhile not just breathing from morning til evening and evening to morning and stressing the need to be active and involved in cultural and educational activities throughout their lives. She lived those ideals in her own life and continued to champion social causes until her death in 1972. Margaret actively served as Board Member in many social welfare organizations including SelfHelpAmerican Federation of Jews from Central Europeand the New York Foundation for Nursing Homes now the New York Foundation for Eldercare.She also became involved in developing a new nursing home in Queenswhich was renamed in her honor in 1975.The MargaretTietz Center for Nursing Care is esteemed for its personal and compassionate care of residents and as a special home for Holocaust survivors and Nazi persecutees. Margaret Tietzs vision continues to inspire the New York Foundation for Eldercare to this dayenergizing us to meet the needs of our elderly population. NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner