The Joint delegation at the funeral of victims of the Kielce pogrom

In Kielce, Poland, an unidentified woman (right), mourning her husband slain in the pogrom, dries her tears with a ribbon sent by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (“the Joint”) and affixed to a floral wreath placed on the mass grave of forty Jewish dead. The Kielce pogrom, so soon after World War II, sparked the emigration of tens of thousands of Polish Jewish survivors. The Joint rushed immediate assistance to the 150 Jewish men, women and children in Kielce who survived the pogrom, with a special allocation of 1,000,000 zlotys, extra food, nurses and convalescent care.