Children playing and watching ping pong game

Ping-pong at a TOZ-OZE summer camp

Kaunas, Lithuania, 1939. Children Playing

Children playing ping-pong at an Obschestvo zdravookhraneniia evreev (OZE), or Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population, summer camp near Kaunas, Lithuania. OZE was devoted to the promotion of health, hygiene, and childcare among Jews. Its health-related activities included running summer camps for Jewish children.

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