New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-11
100000 JEWS
DOOMED BY WAR
Magnes Bids U. S. Rush
Aid to Save People of
Occupied Russia

The Jews OF the section Of Russia
occupied by the Teutons, totslling
about 100000 men, women and chill
dren, are being wiped out by the Eu-
ropean war and will, II the struggle
does not end in year or two, dis
appear entirely, according to DR.. J. l..
Magnes, head Of the Kehillah, or Jew
ish Community of New York, who has
just returned from a three months
tour Of the Eastern war area. Dr.
Magnes's report, which is Endorsed by
Jacob H. Schif, was issued yesterday
by Herman Bernstein, editor OF "The
American Hebrew"
DR.. Magnes made the trip at the So
licitation Of the Jews Of this country.
1t was DIR. Magnes who started the
local campaign that Melted s5,000,0 900
for the Jews of the war zone last year.
1t was said yesterday by persons in
terested in Jewish philanthropies that
a similar campaign, based on DR..
Magnes's report, will be started in
New York shortly.
Middle Class Is Menaced
"The whole Jewish middle class is
being wiped out" said Or. Magnes.
THE Jewish laborer has nothing TO do.
The man who did some 'handeln,' or
trading, has nothing to do. There are
a few persons at the top making lot
of money, but these are men, usually.
who heretofore had made no money
and who cannot be persuaded, by elo-
quence or tears, to help others.
"You see a whole people in misery.
They do not know where the bread Is
coming from that they and their chill
dren may have on the morrow. They
are a people standing In line, waiting
TO be fed; people without clothes;
a people in rags; people without
light in their houses; a people with
out shoes; a people that is gradually,
day by day, getting weaker and
weaker.
81 should like to call Heaven as wit
ness that the people there need the
strength of every one of US II they are
going TO be saved. How long this
war is to last no one knows, but IL u
idslS duOlHtf VI lNo gNatof p't
help the Jews there, | am convinced
that there will be very few left.
what should like TO tell the Jews
of America is that il is not this in
dividual instance that | am interested
in, but whole people. You hear very
little outcry. The people are not COM
planning much. They are stunned.
They don't know what TO make OF 1t;
they do not know where TO turn ex-
cept to you and me-to America"
Seek Help from United States
One of the most tragic things that
know is the way people wave ad-
dresses in your face. As soon as you
are discovered TO be from America, &
whole city seems to spring from the
ground and every person has an ad-
dress in his hands-the back OF an
envelope, a dirty piece of paper, an
address of some one in America.
Under German rule the cities are
cleaner, but there is no food. When
the Russians we're there they had
cholera. but they also could eat And
when they had cholera the people died.
As q rabbi in Oszmiany, east OF War
saw, said, il would be better for them
10 die. And there, like everywhere
else you 90. it is the few dollars from
America that help. The people are
dropping in the streets from hunger.
| myself saw them.
"The same situation Of misery pre-.
walls in Lithuania and that part OF
Poland occupied by Austria. IL pre-
walls in Lemberg and throughout Ga
licia. 1t is a whole people, q whole
people silently suffering"