Birobidzhan: Caring for Jews in the Jewish Autonomous Republic

Travel deep in Siberia, and you'll find Birobidzhan, the "Jewish Autonomous Region" established by Stalin in the 1930s.

That's where Tsilla lives, one of the last Jews in her village and one of tens of thousands of impoverished elderly Jews across the former Soviet Union who receive food, medicine, and more from JDC.

This is her story.

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For more than 100 years, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has been saving Jewish lives, building Jewish life, and transforming Jewish values into action that benefits all people in need. As the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian aid group, JDC today works in more than 70 countries and in Israel to alleviate hunger and hardship, rescue Jews in danger, create lasting connections to Jewish life, and provide disaster relief and development support for victims of natural and man-made disasters.

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