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Photo, Print, Drawing Refugees Returning to Poland from Russia.

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Title

  • Refugees Returning to Poland from Russia.

Summary

  • In the early years of World War I, many Jews living in the disputed territories of Poland were resettled by Russian military authorities in the provinces of Central Russia. In areas where aid was possible, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a humanitarian organization created at the start of World War I by American Jewish groups, carried on relief activities on behalf of refugees, and later--as citizens of prewar Poland went back home--for the returnees. The displaced received baths, nourishing meals, shoes, clothing, medical treatment, and shelter. The returnees in this photograph were on the road between Rowne (present-day Rovno or Rivne, Ukraine) to Łuck (Lutsk, Ukraine), having traveled for four months from the Volga region of Russia. Among the first medical team of JDC representatives was Max Colton, a physician, who took this photograph and others to document the work of the medical unit and the communities where it worked. 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

  • Colton, Max J. Photographer.
  • Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1921 to 1922]

Headings

  • -  Ukraine
  • -  1921 to 1922
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Families
  • -  Horse-drawn vehicles
  • -  Refugees
  • -  Wagons
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 3.25 x 5.25 inches.
  • -  Original resource at: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • -  Content in English and Polish.
  • -  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

  • 2021670921

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Colton, Max J. Photographer, and Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Refugees Returning to Poland from Russia. Ukraine, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670921/.

APA citation style:

Colton, M. J. P. & Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1921) Refugees Returning to Poland from Russia. Ukraine, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670921/.

MLA citation style:

Colton, Max J. Photographer, and Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Refugees Returning to Poland from Russia. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670921/>.