VIRTUAL JEWISH MUSEUM

The Eastern front extended as far south as Macedonia but mostly focused on Poland and Russia.  Austro-Hungarian forces were much more involved here.  The  conflict raged in countless Jewish communities, which had contributed their bread-winners as conscripts to the war effort but were also impoverished by the flow of opposing armies and forced relocations.  Eastern Poland was ruled by Russia and had been part of the Pale of Jewish Settlement.  Jewish life there was changed forever.