Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-02-10
RUSSIANS PROSECUTE AND
MURDER JEWS.


the Gar of Russia tried to gain the
good viii of the Jews all over the
world by addressing himself to- My
beloved Jews" and promising them
all but the millennium. The major
ity of the Jews in America undoubt-
edly took these promises with a grain
of salt, and the same did millions
of Gentiles. How right they were
to be sceptic is shown by the follow
ing appalling account of the treat
ment accorded the Jews in Poland,
written by DR.. Arthur Levy, a Rab
bi serving with the German army.
The letter, dated December "a, was
written at the front at Lodz. DR..
Levy writes:
Il learn here in the field, where l
am serving as Jewish rabbi for the
Jewish soldiers of one OF the German
armies, that the deeds Of the Rus
slams in Radon as reported in the
Berliner Tageblatt were discounted
with the explanation that the blame
must be laid at the doors of the per-
sons who in the first instance caused
them. / myself was the author OF
that report. Accordingly l am
naturally interested in its contents
and its fate, and therefore l take
the liberty Of assuring you sol
emnly and with all the deadly
earnest of our bloody times that
the facts mentioned are absolutely
and literally true.
"In Radon the Russians hanged
three innocent Jews without trial or
sentence, among them a man, the
son OF the Alexandrower Rebbe,
famed throughout all Poland, who
was reyered as a saint here by the
entire community and who, spend
ing his days over the Talmud,
studying in solitude and pious
meditation, busted himself not at all
with the affairs of this world l my
self had an opportunity of speaking
with the unhappy widow in Radon.
Rigid as q stone, she sat before me,
and with a calm spirit that wrung
my heart she took her terrible fate
as the viii Of God, and when her
torn heart yearned to cry aloud in
maddening pain her pious mind
taught her to be patient and to
yield to Gods will
"And with Il nervous twitching
about the mouth she told me in a
subdued voice Of the unspeakable
grief that had fallen upon her and
of the men who had fallen by the
hand of the executioner: My
brother-in-law, -, the son of Alex
andrower Rebbe ~, was an upright
man. Of gentle nature, man Of God.
Why did they hang him? Ask the
Polish denouncer on whose con
science lies this triple murder.
Pogroms Still Continue.
Besides, my heart is Wrung when
see and hear what terrible crimes
Of violence have been executed
upon Jews by the Russians in the
course of the present war and are
still being carried out. The pogroms
OF former days are as nothing COM
pared to the savage destruction of
Jewish homes and Jewish lives that
sweeps forward and backward like
q threatening shadow with the COM
ing and going af the Russian hosts
throughout Poland. So far po-
groms have been carried on in more
than 215 places, and no end Of this
terror is in sight.
But let me go into details and
tell you Of facts, naked facts, the
horror of which no one can fail to
admit and the truth of which can
not be CLOSED over by any amount
Of pretty coloring
In Stashew eleven Jews, in their
praying shawls and shrouds, we're
hanged in the synagogue on Yom
Kippur (the jewish day OF atone
ment).
In Klodowa two of the most
highly respected Jews were hanged
on the balcony of their own homes
when tho Jews emerged from the
synagogue on q Friday (Sabbath)
evening, and that. too, after the
wife Of one of them had been forced
to fetch the ropes. For twenty
four hours the bodies were Kept
hanging there, and the Jews in tho
neighborhood were prevented from
closing their shutters so as to ex-
clude the horrible sight On the
chest Of one of the murdered men a
placard had been attached reading,
Hanged Because They Were I'M
willing to Exchange Three Ruble
Piece
"In Lenczyca civil guard had
! been established, consisting OF 10
per cent Jews. When the Russian
forces reached Lenczyca all the Jews
were at once ousted from the
militia, and that same night the Cos
sacks plundered and maltreated the
Inhabitants in Jewish houses ex-
clusively.
Girls Commit Suicide.
"In Shidlowicz Jewish girls threw
themselves into the Pilica pond be-
cause they had been outraged and
were unwilling to carry the disgrace
through life with them.
I'm Ostrowice the Cossacks de-
manded the surrender Of the rabbi,
zaddik Kahcher, who was to be
hanged on a charge of having favor
ed the Austrians. AS a matter of
fact he, together with the Polish
priest, had gone forward to meet
the Austro-German troops, even as
he had gone forward earlier to meet
the Russians, in order to beg that
the inhabitants Of the place be
treated humanely Inasmuch as the
rabbi concealed himself, the Cos
sacks waited for the approaching
YOm KipDur and surrounded the