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Photo, Print, Drawing Hungry People Greet an American Relief Worker in Dachowa, Poland.

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Title

  • Hungry People Greet an American Relief Worker in Dachowa, Poland.

Summary

  • This photograph, taken by an American aid worker on an inspection tour of Poland in 1921, shows adults and children in Dachowa awaiting relief. In 1918-19, Jews in Poland lived through a reign of terror. While the country was at war with its neighbors to the east and the south, there were anti-Jewish pogroms and other attacks. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a humanitarian organization formed at the beginning of World War I, conducted relief activities for the endangered Jewish population. After the war, the JDC provided food to Jews in Polish towns and villages; dispatched delegations of doctors, public health experts, and social workers; set up soup kitchens; rebuilt hospitals; and opened orphanages. 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 field 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

  • -  Poland--Wielkopolskie--Dachowa
  • -  1921 to 1922
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Food supply
  • -  Humanitarian assistance
  • -  Hunger
  • -  Jews
  • -  War relief
  • -  World War, 1914-1918

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black and white ; 5 x 7 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

  • 2021670923

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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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. Hungry People Greet an American Relief Worker in Dachowa, Poland. Poland Wielkopolskie Dachowa, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670923/.

APA citation style:

Colton, M. J. P. & Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1921) Hungry People Greet an American Relief Worker in Dachowa, Poland. Poland Wielkopolskie Dachowa, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670923/.

MLA citation style:

Colton, Max J. Photographer, and Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Hungry People Greet an American Relief Worker in Dachowa, Poland. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670923/>.