The Sokolow immigrants in Chicago were a strong group that ran charitable campaigns to help relatives in Poland. Here are the names of the first Sokolowers in Chicago. Do you know any of them?
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Talmud-Torah school
Talmud-Torah school in the interwar period. A group of Sokolowers from Chicago came to Sokolow to give children new clothes (and take this picture).
The economic crisis that broke out in the USA in 1929 spread to other European countries in the following years. The 1930s meant great poverty and hunger for many families. Some emigrated, others stayed in Poland, hoping that their fate would improve.
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