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Mutual Aid and Welfare

Despite the predatory reality endured by the Jews of Eastern and Western Europe, many people mobilized to assist those weaker than them, establishing mutual aid and welfare organizations.

Passover seder in the Warsaw Ghetto   Zelechow Poland 1942   Children in Gorlice Ghetto 1942
         
Children in Bucharest Romania 1942-44   Self-help organizations in Bucharest, Romania   Public kitchen in Lodz, Poland

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