Artist: Jerome D. Silberstein
dato: 1954
museum: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives (New York, United States)
Teknik: Gelatin Silver Print
A Jewish child and mother enter a medical facility in Casablanca, Morocco. The condition of the Jews of North Africa had first come to the attention of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) during World War II, when JDC was searching for sanctuaries for Jews fleeing the Nazi juggernaut and when camps for Jewish refugees were being established in Morocco. JDC found that many Jews in this part of the world were living in poverty, packed into overcrowded and unhealthy mellahs, or Jewish Quarters, plagued by malnutrition and attendant diseases. The misery of the needy Jewish population was made worse by outbreaks of violence after the founding of the Jewish State. JDC
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