Crowded living conditions for Jewish refugees

This photograph shows a group of refugees, including young children and
elderly people, sharing one room in a building in Friedrichstadt (now Jaunjelgava),
Latvia. Friedrichstadt had been a shtetl in the Pale of Settlement. Prior to World War
I, its Jewish population was 3,200 out of 6,500, but by the war’s end, it had dropped to
800 out of 2,000. Th…