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Photo, Print, Drawing Milk Distribution at a Children's Health Clinic in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.

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Title

  • Milk Distribution at a Children's Health Clinic in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.

Summary

  • The mothers shown in this photograph are receiving milk from the staff of a children's health clinic at a town in Poland. The conflicts and pogroms that took place during and after World War I brought disease, famine, and dislocation to hundreds of thousands of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in Poland. In response, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a humanitarian organization created at the start of World War I by American Jewish groups, established soup kitchens, reconstructed and equipped hospitals, supported orphanages, and sent food in convoys of trucks to hundreds of towns and villages in Poland. The child care program, involving about 400,000 children who required extra help, was considered of the greatest importance. The JDC established milk stations where babies and children could receive a glass of milk for less than one cent. In Warsaw, at the height of the emergency period, as many as 35,000 children were supplied with milk each day through these stations. 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 to 1922]

Headings

  • -  Poland--Łódzkie--Piotrków Trybunalski
  • -  1921 to 1922
  • -  American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  • -  Children
  • -  Eating and drinking
  • -  Faith-based human services
  • -  Food supply
  • -  Humanitarian assistance
  • -  Hunger
  • -  Nutrition
  • -  Public health
  • -  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.
  • -  Content in 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

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670928

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. Milk Distribution at a Children's Health Clinic in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. Poland Łódzkie Piotrków Trybunalski, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670928/.

APA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. (1921) Milk Distribution at a Children's Health Clinic in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. Poland Łódzkie Piotrków Trybunalski, 1921. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670928/.

MLA citation style:

Joint Distribution Committee Of The American Funds For Jewish War Sufferers Associated Name. Milk Distribution at a Children's Health Clinic in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1922] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670928/>.