Children outside a public soup kitchen, Poland

A group of poor Jewish children, barefoot and holding their pots, wait to
receive food at a soup kitchen in Rowne, Poland (currently Rivne, Ukraine). Even after
the destruction and dislocation of World War I came to an end, the situation for Jews in
Eastern Europe remained bleak. Civil war in Russia and the Russo-Polish War of 1919-1920
caused furthe…