PHOTO-EXHIBITION
Exhibition on America’s Humanitarian Aid to Soviet Russia during the Famine of 1921-1923
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ARA District Manager Donald Renshaw in one of the open kitchen in Moscow arranged by Americans for children mass feeding on the base of equality of race, religion, social origin. The hungry and abandoned children were picked up in the streets and brought at the nearest children reception institution. Ufa, 1922. Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), the ARA Director, the future President of the United States in 1929-1933.
Maxim Litvinov (1879-1952), Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. He signed a Treaty with the ARA in Riga, Latvia, on August 20, 1921. The Treaty of Riga paved the way for America to bring food, medicine, and clothes to the needy in Soviet Russia. The map of the ARA’s supplies routes to Europe and Soviet Russia. These are the author’s grandfather and grandmother, who survived the great famine of 1921-1923 PP.
The author’s mother, Sophia Latypova (1918-1988), she was only 3 years when the famine broke out. She received the ARA’s milk, cacao, and porridge at the village school. ARA medical point. Medical assistance was provided to more or less 17 million people. Many countries of Europe, Asia and Latin America rendered assistance to Soviet Russia. Here is the case of Lithuania.
John Clapp, the ARA supervisor in Uralsk, Saratov region, is listening to the thankful address to the American people from the local children who were rescued from famine through the ARA’s food. At the ARA kitchen in Uralsk. On the wall at the back there is a sign which says that it is the American Relief Administration’s kitchen.... The ARA’s open canteen for children, Uralsk, Saratov region.
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