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Photo, Print, Drawing Children Wearing Makeshift Coats from Flour Sacks outside an Orphanage in Grodno, Poland.

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Title

  • Children Wearing Makeshift Coats from Flour Sacks outside an Orphanage in Grodno, Poland.

Summary

  • These children in Grodno, Poland (present-day Hrodna, Belarus) were among tens of thousands of Jewish war orphans who between 1914 and 1920 had lost one or both parents on the battlefield, in military hospitals, or from epidemics, starvation, and other war-related causes. The Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds for the Relief of Jewish War Sufferers (later the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, both names abbreviated as JDC) was formed in 1914 to send aid, including food, clothing, medicine, funds, and emergency supplies, to the stricken Jews of Europe during the war. When the war ended, the JDC launched a general plan to care for Jewish war orphans, providing room and board, clothing, education, medical attention, and social welfare. At first, limited supplies of clothing led to the use of improvised outfits, made from the sacks used to transport American flour. This wire-service photograph is from the archives of the JDC, which contain documents, photographs, film, video, oral histories, and artifacts recording the work of the organization from World War I to the present.

Names

  • International News Photos (New York, New York) Photographer.
  • Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1920.

Headings

  • -  Belarus--Hrodzyenskaya Voblasts--Hrodna
  • -  1920
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Children
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Humanitarian assistance
  • -  Orphanages
  • -  Orphans
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
  • -  Original resource at: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • World War I

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670908

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

International News Photos Photographer, and Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Children Wearing Makeshift Coats from Flour Sacks outside an Orphanage in Grodno, Poland. Belarus Hrodzyenskaya Voblasts Hrodna, 1920. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670908/.

APA citation style:

International News Photos Photographer & Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1920) Children Wearing Makeshift Coats from Flour Sacks outside an Orphanage in Grodno, Poland. Belarus Hrodzyenskaya Voblasts Hrodna, 1920. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670908/.

MLA citation style:

International News Photos Photographer, and Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Children Wearing Makeshift Coats from Flour Sacks outside an Orphanage in Grodno, Poland. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670908/>.