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A Shtetl Is Starving to Death
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Not far from Lódz is a small town called Brzezhin. It has been a town of tailors from the beginning of time. When it was under Russian rule, Brzezhin was a center for manufacturing cheap clothes for…

Contributor:

Henryk Erlich

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1933

Subjects:

Capitalism, Health, Hunger, Poverty, Shtetl

Categories:

Political Culture, Reportage, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts