Photo, Print, Drawing Orphanage Kindergarten in Brest-Litovsk, Poland.
About this Item
Title
- Orphanage Kindergarten in Brest-Litovsk, Poland.
Summary
- This photograph shows kindergarten teachers and pupils in a yard of the orphanage on Pushkinskaya Street in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (Yiddish, Brisk; present-day Brest, Belarus). After World War I and the Russo-Polish War that followed (1919-20), there were tens of thousands of Jewish orphans in Poland. 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. The war left in its wake many additional catastrophes--pogroms, epidemics, famine, revolution, and economic ruin--and after the war the JDC continued to play a major role in rebuilding the devastated Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and in sustaining the Jews in Palestine. The JDC supported homes, both public and private, for orphaned children such as those shown here. 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.
- Photographic Department "Modern" Photographer.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1921.
Headings
- - Belarus--Brèsckaya Voblasts--Brest
- - 1921
- - American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- - Children
- - Faith-based human services
- - Humanitarian assistance
- - Jews
- - Orphanages
- - Orphans
- - Russo-Polish War, 1919-1920
- - School children
- - Schools
- - World War, 1914-1918
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 4.5 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
- 2021670916
Online Format
- compressed data
- image
LCCN Permalink
Additional Metadata Formats
IIIF Presentation Manifest
Part of
Format
Contributor
- Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers
- Photographic Department "Modern"