https://davidkultur.at/artikel/david-gutmann-und-das-israelitische-maedchenwaisenhaus-in-wien-doebling
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Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada

I don't think this was the same orphanage, but my mother's four birth siblings were placed in a Jewish orphanage in Vienna in 1914 or early 1915,  and were there for up to ten years - their parents were alive but had lost each other on the journey from Drohobych to Vienna, fleeing a pogrom, and the mother had no means to support herself and the children. I would love to have any information about other Jewish orphanages in Vienna - I believe this one was mixed-sex.
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Veronica Zundel, London
Searching descendants of Josef Jakob Horoschowski b. 1905 Drohobych

My father had a similar story. His father was taken prisoner of war in the early days of WWI to Kassel, Germany. His mother died of typhus in 1918 in Lodz. He and his orphan siblings were sent away to relatives in different countries. My father ended up in the Jewish orphanage of Kassel on Giessen Str. He lived there until 1924 when he went on his own at the age of 14. It seems that there were a lot of Jewish children living in orphanages after WWI.
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Dominique Anderson 
Charlottesville, VA