Slideshow: Alice in Hungerland, a Near East Relief Film

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  • Slideshow

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  • Citizen Philanthropy

Young Esther Razon was living in a Jewish orphanage in Constantinople when she was selected to play the main role in Near East Relief’s 1921 film Alice in Hungerland. The silent film tells the story of an American child who stows away to Constantinople to visit her father, a Near East Relief worker.