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In front of the Sick Fund (Kasa Chorych) building at 225 Wólczańska Street, three men, each wearing an oprychówka (a flat cap typical of the day), take a patient on a stretcher out of an ambulance car.

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This photograph was taken in front of the Sick Fund (Kasa Chorych) building at 225 Wólczańska Street (formerly the family residence of workers at the "Tivoli" factory). A man and a paramedic sit in an open ambulance car with registration number LD…

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Tired, overworked women with small children stand in line at a "Drop of Milk" station in an impoverished Łódź courtyard. Each woman has come with an empty vessel for receiving milk. All are shabbily dressed. Their square woolen worker's shawls (such…

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A young girl wearing a chequered dress proudly holds up an oversized bottle of milk. Buildings from one of Łódź's poor districts are visible in the background.

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A woman wrapped in a square woolen shawl (such shawls were factory produced to keep working-class women warm) gets help at a "Drop of Milk" station. Supporting a happy baby with one arm, she displays in her opposite hand the impressive bottle of milk…

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A man identified as Bolesław Traczykowski (the photographer, Włodzimierz Pfeiffer shared this name with us in his description of the photo's negative) poses and smiles in front of a signboard. Station XI of the "Drop of Milk" program was the last one…

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Children's Preventorium, established in Łagiewniki in 1920 for children infected with tuberculosis. At this facility, children could rest in conditions favorable to their recovery. One of the establishment's founders, Seweryn Sterling was a…

Der_dibuk_way_to_the_cemetery.mp4
Re-mastered at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University

Yidl_mitn_fidl_from_the_beginning_till_minut.mp4
Re-mastered at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University