National Republican., 1881-07-05
ILL-TREATED IsRAELITEs.
Their Persecution In Russin-IHorrible
Details OF brutality.


Details or Brutality.
Gradually the horrible details of the
massacres of the Jewish inhabitants Of several
Russian cities, suppressed by the Russian authori-
ties have found their way now into the European
press, being communicated by private letters fug-
tives, and other sources. The Austrian and Ger
man newspapers especially TEEN with blood.cur
ding and frghtful stories Of barbarity and cruelty,
and the appeals for aid to the sufferers far as
aid can be rendered them, are being generously
responded to all over Europe. In England $4,000
have been already subscribed for this purposes in
Austria $4,000 have been given thus far and the
subscriptions in Germany and France are making
rapid progress. movement to render aid is also
under way In New York and other American cities
AT NEME1.
one OF the principal trade centres of Eastern Prus-
STA, standing committee, consisting of DR.. Ruelf
NJ. Lurie, and A. Wittenberg, is actively engaged
in directing the judlcious expenditure ofthe money
forwarded to 1t and assisting f1gitives. The com.
mittee issued the following appeal, which is now
being circulated in the German and Austrian
press Fellow-men and co-religionists; You
have heard and read of the bloody prosecutions Of
which our brethren In Southern Russia have been
the victims. Not the thousandth part Of the truth
has come to your knowledge. The fury Of an un.
bridled mob has made terrible havoc. 1t took It's
victims by surprise, has plundered, destroyed,
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and shown no mercy to helpless women or limo.
cent children in
ABUSING, ouTRAGING, AND NUMBERING.
Hundreds of people have been slain hundreds
ofthousandsare without shelter or bread-destltutc
ofevcrything, some have fed across the borders
to their Austrian brethren Other fugitives ore
flooding the (Prussian) cities of the North and
West, others still seek refuge in fields and forests,
still hunted down by the mercless beasts. We
pnll t1ta uhnI. IN otI fnrftt
mates, We are all moro or less morally obliged to
take the consequences Of such horrors upon US.
We will accuse no one, breathe no suspicious; we
will not do this for the sake of the great German
nation alone If for no other reason, nor inquire
who has
LET LOOSE THESE BEASTS
upon innocent people We ask aid of the whole
world. We cannot raise the many millions neces
sary TO cover the damage DONE We cannot restore
the dead to life, nor offer compensation for the
brutaltles, maimings, and ournges committed !;
but we must prevent these unhappy ones from be.
coming after all their suherings, the prey star
walton and misery.
DURING THE TERRIBLE PERIOD
of suffering consequent upon tho failure of the crop
In 1867 more than a million mark were entrusted
to us for charitable purposes We then rendered
aid to $50 Russian towns and cities, accounted for
everything, and will discharge our full duty in
the present emergency.
THE standing committee in aid of the suffering
Russian Israelites. DIR. RUELF,
an LURE
"A. WITTENBERG
"MoME1r May %, 1881
This committee has also given publication to the
following letter of we'll known prominent Kew
merchant to his brother.in. law at Memel, which
place the former has been in the habit Of visiting
annually on business
"KfEw, May QSth OF our date) 1881.
"DEAR BROTHER IS-LAw: In reply to your well
come letter of the 14h let me reAssure you by stat
ing that and the members of my household have
been saved, thank God. But II Is not in the power
of the pen to give details of the terrible murders
and Tobbercs committed upon our Jewish core
| ligionists At Kew, Elisabetgrad, Komatop,
Smile, and their nelghborhood thousands upon
| thousands of men, women, and children, naked
| and hungry, are wandering through the streets
| or writhing in agony upon the ground. On Sunday
April 20 Mays, ut twelve o'clock noon in the broad
light of the sun, and in the presence of high civic
and military dignitarles, pillage and murder were
set In scene and continued theirwork Of destruc-
tion uninterruptedly for two days. Since
| the destruction of Jerusalem and the crusadcs
such terrible scenes have not been enacted. All
houses of worship were demolished, and the
scols Sacred writings) used by the numbering
| hordes in mockingly ornamenting their clothes
Many millions will not replace the damage done
and cover the losses sustained BY our brethren.
THANK God, the city of Kiew has quieted down
but the troubles still continuing in the neigh
boring towns and villages, and God knows whert
1t all will end. Every day swells the numbers o
maltreated and plundered who seek refuge here
At Krepost alone IA fort near Kew there are ovel
four thousand people without clothing or food
have hardly strength to write. My head feels as 4
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| the Lord put All end TO our suiierings.
| 'Ihavenot said too much; God forbid my word
are as Il drop in the ocean compared to the de
struction and devastation which my eyes hav,
seen. oh, Lord, must we thus perish altogether
| Happy the eye which must not see all this! How
many were there of maidcns publicly outraged b!
these beasts, and now at the point of death Ma,
| God have mercy upon them T.