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Photo, Print, Drawing Favus Patients and Their Caregivers in a Treatment Center Isolation Ward in Vilna, Lithuania.

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Title

  • Favus Patients and Their Caregivers in a Treatment Center Isolation Ward in Vilna, Lithuania.

Summary

  • In the aftermath of World War I, poverty caused by wartime destruction and dislocation bred disease in Europe. The children in this photograph, taken in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1921, have their heads wrapped; they are being treated for favus, a fungal skin disease that affects the scalp. The physician (standing, rear right) treating the children has been identified as Mahmud Kajabi. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a humanitarian organization created at the start of World War I by American Jewish groups to provide wartime relief to Jewish communities, continued its work after the war, including support for the establishment of Jewish hospitals, child care institutions, food distribution stations, and other institutions throughout Poland, including this treatment center in Vilna. 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], 1921.

Headings

  • -  Lithuania--Vilnius
  • -  1921
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Children--Diseases
  • -  Communicable diseases
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Hospitals
  • -  Humanitarian assistance
  • -  Nurses
  • -  Physicians
  • -  Public health
  • -  War relief
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 4 x 6 inches.
  • -  Original resource at: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • -  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

  • 2021670919

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

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Chicago citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Favus Patients and Their Caregivers in a Treatment Center Isolation Ward in Vilna, Lithuania. Lithuania Vilnius, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670919/.

APA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1921) Favus Patients and Their Caregivers in a Treatment Center Isolation Ward in Vilna, Lithuania. Lithuania Vilnius, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670919/.

MLA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Favus Patients and Their Caregivers in a Treatment Center Isolation Ward in Vilna, Lithuania. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670919/>.