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Photo, Print, Drawing Orphaned Refugees in a Children's Home in Kiev.

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Title

  • Orphaned Refugees in a Children's Home in Kiev.

Summary

  • This orphanage in Kiev, Ukraine, took in children, mostly from small towns, who had survived the pogroms (anti-Jewish riots) of May 1920. In the years immediately following the Russian Revolution and continuing until the end of the Russian Civil War, disputed territories of the former Russian Empire suffered repeated invasions from Ukrainian, Bolshevik, and Polish forces. During this period of political upheaval, there were many pogroms, and disease and starvation were also rampant. In Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of children were left without parents or homes. In the wake of such violence, the first efforts to provide aid were handled by regional organizations such as the Jewish Committee to Aid War Victims (EKOPO), through funding from 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 the JDC). The JDC, a humanitarian organization, was created in the United States at the start of World War I to provide relief from privation and suffering for Jews abroad. The JDC supported homes for orphans, both institutional and private, in Ukraine, Russia, and other war-torn countries. The 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

  • Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1920-05.

Headings

  • -  Ukraine--Kiev
  • -  1920-05
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Humanitarian assistance
  • -  Jews
  • -  Orphanages
  • -  Orphans
  • -  Refugees
  • -  Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
  • -  War relief

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 4.75 x 7 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.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670911

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Orphaned Refugees in a Children's Home in Kiev. Ukraine Kiev, 1920. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -05] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670911/.

APA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1920) Orphaned Refugees in a Children's Home in Kiev. Ukraine Kiev, 1920. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -05] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670911/.

MLA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Orphaned Refugees in a Children's Home in Kiev. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -05] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670911/>.