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Photo, Print, Drawing People Await the Opening of a Soup Kitchen in Aleksandrovsk, Ukraine.

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Title

  • People Await the Opening of a Soup Kitchen in Aleksandrovsk, Ukraine.

Summary

  • This photograph shows hungry people, mostly women and children, waiting with their containers for the soup kitchen to open in Aleksandrovsk (present-day Zaporozhye), Ukraine, in 1921. Famine struck the Soviet Union in 1921, one of the consequences of seven years of war. Under the auspices of the American Relief Administration (ARA) established by the United States government, 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), provided food on a nonsectarian basis to millions of starving people in Ukraine, Russia, and Crimea over the course of a year. The JDC was created at the start of World War I by American Jewish groups uniting to provide coordinated relief from privation and suffering for Jews abroad. Since 1914, the JDC has operated as a global humanitarian organization, providing food, clothing, medicine, child care, job training, and refugee assistance in over 90 countries. The JDC Archives contain photographs, documents, film, video, oral histories and artifacts documenting the organization's work.

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

  • -  Ukraine--Zaporiz'ka Oblast--Zaporozhye
  • -  1921
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Food supply
  • -  Humanitarian assistance
  • -  Hunger
  • -  Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
  • -  War relief
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 7 x 9.5 inches.
  • -  Original resource at: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • -  Content in Ukrainian.
  • -  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

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670918

Online Format

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  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. People Await the Opening of a Soup Kitchen in Aleksandrovsk, Ukraine. Zaporozhye Ukraine Zaporiz'ka Oblast, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670918/.

APA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1921) People Await the Opening of a Soup Kitchen in Aleksandrovsk, Ukraine. Zaporozhye Ukraine Zaporiz'ka Oblast, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670918/.

MLA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. People Await the Opening of a Soup Kitchen in Aleksandrovsk, Ukraine. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670918/>.