American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's photostream

JDC helped fund an ORT vocational school in Woleka, Ethiopia, 1979. Today, JDC is focused on...

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Child survivors of famine and pogroms heal in safety at JDC-funded summer colony Malakhovka, near...

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Children bathing near the Botvino Agro-Joint settlement, one of 215 JDC-established and supported...

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Romanian war orphans in 1919 apprentice with master craftsmen to learn a viable trade, with JDC...

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Three-year-old Meir, fatherless after WWI, in the care of JDC-funded Palestine Orphan Committee in...

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JDC-supported canteen in Casablanca, Morocco, c. 1951—part of a larger effort to aid an estimated...

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In 1940, JDC support enables Lithuania’s Jewish community and young Jewish refugees in war-ravaged...

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Child dances at JDC/Malben-supported Swedish Village for special needs children in Jerusalem in...

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Noonday meal for 300 needy children at the Sir Elly Kadoorie School in Bombay (now Mumbai),...

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Morning gymnastics at the settlement house run by the Hanna Association for the Protection of...

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Jewish life is restored in one of 61 JDC-supported children's homes in Paris after WWII, when JDC...

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‘Deplorable’ poverty of Jewish students in Minsk inspires JDC’s student relief operations in...

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Mari and her sister, Sima, in the shell of Sima's apartment in Gori, the contents of which...

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Uploaded on Sep 16, 2008

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63-year-old Mari and her blind, infirmed mother fled their home in Gori when the attacks began. Mari...

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JDC staff hand-delivers a humanitarian aid package to an elderly woman in a remote town near Gori.

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72-year old Frida and her grandson, David--both Hesed clients- hid in a nearby village when Gori was...

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Residents of Gori, 80-year-old Darvashli and her son, Simon, open JDC's humanitarian aid packages,...

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David, a local doctor and the Executive Director of a hospital in Gori, counsels a homebound elderly...

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Uploaded on Aug 20, 2008

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