Adoption Placement of Children
Korea / Japan: AKF [Korea-US Foundation], 1950. Very Good Condition. Item #50131
Korea or Japan?: AKF [Korea-US Foundation], n.d., but ca. 1950s. Slim octavo (25cm); publisher's white staplebound wrappers; [10]pp.; both cover and interior text printed mimeograph from manuscript. Light wear from handling, textblock uniformly toned from inferior paper quality. Very Good overall. Interior text almost entirely in Korean, upper cover in Korean and English.
Unrecorded pamphlet promoting the adoption of disowned Japanese and Korean children in the years following the end of World War II. Florence Boester was a social worker who spent her career helping find homes for orphaned and abandoned children, beginning with the War when she worked to reunite Greek children who had been separated from their parents by the Nazis. This pamphlet dates from shortly after the War, when Boester was the Japan representative of the International Social Service, proposing measures for placing Korean children with families in foreign countries due to the poor living conditions in the local orphanages while also providing advice for local families looking to adopt. Boester's efforts made the news in 1957 with the article "Asian Orphans of Mixed Blood Finding Homes with Americans" (Connecticut Post, November 3, 1957), an unacknowledged reminder of the presence of US troupes in Korea and Japan following the War and the women and children they abandoned there. As Boester told the reporter, the number of orphans always exceeds demand.
This pamphlet rare, with no copies in the trade or OCLC as of October 2026.
Price: $450.00