Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-30
By M'LISS

brother" and philadelphia" These words
were sufficient for an Ellis Island Govern
ment agent who put her on the train headed
this way. If the Travellers Aid hadn't
stepped in, the story might have been a diff
ferent one
As it is, the brother was found-his
American name is Nathan-and Sarah
after many good meals is beginning to
look like healthy girl again.
At his home, at 1903 South Fourth
street Sarah through the medium of Miss
Emilia Goldberg, the societys very inteli-
gent interpreter, told her story.
TALE OF FRIGHTFUL SUFFERING
II don't know how it was or why" Sarah
said, twisting her handkerchief into nervous
knots. but the Germans let about 500
women from Wilma come to America, and
was one Of them. We had to have enough
money though, to pay for everything along
| the way-war prices
I'VE had had more than two years of
starvation. People were dying faster than
| they could be buried. One-quarter of a
pound of bread every twenty-four hours
| was allowed to each person. Such bread ="
| She ran to the dresser and brought forth
| an awful memory in the shape of a piece
| Of black bread. 1t looked like frozen
uIly SpoHBe WIN SllCklHB out OF the
apertures.
| "Six months of that bread and nv
father. big. healthy man, took to his bed
and died. And as early as and o'clock
| in the morning we would get up to try to
be first for the distribution. which took
| place at IL o'clock. In the beginning there
was a quarter of pound OF this stuff for
| all who applied for it, but later only those
| who came first got any
| "Soon NV nathan oot sio, o,a
hardly crawl around. She grieved for my
| father and my nineteen year-old brother
| whom the Germans took and sent we knew
| not where at the time He was a big, good
| boy, They caught him when he went out
on the streets. They made him register
for their army.
:" L will not fight for Germany, he told
them. So said they, and they took him
| away.
"A year afterward that big boy came
| back-a cripple and with his fingers gone
Those big brutes had put him in the forests
all winter, without enough clothing They
4 made him chop wood from daybreak Til
far into the night Him, too, they gave
only quarter Of a pound of this stuff
They sent him back dying He may be
gone by this time, even as my father ID
gone.
THE very rich could buy a little extra
there was nothing. because our work stopped
and we had no money, When we heard
that the Germans would let some women
$3.50 they wouldn't have to bury them
1 suppose-my mother said: We must raise
enough money 30 the girl can 60 to Russia.
MY mother was afraid for me. It was
not safe for good girl to go on the stree,
In Wilma. Many OF my friends suffered
But always the babies died. There are ne
babies In Poland. 1t Is not now a land
where children can live.
500 VICTIMS SENT TO AMERICA
But the Germans would not let us 20 Il
Russia. You must have enough money tt
carry you to America they said. This wa,
before this country had gone into the war
MY people got me the money. with so,
women and three lams old men We set out
Some died on the way. For everythin,
they overcharged us. Some were taken of
the train, suspected Of being spies. but il
the end we came to Rotterdam and wer
put on the boat for America. America A
great country. but how can 1 think O
anything but my mother and brother bacl
there who have nothing to eat and ma,
be dead?
Sarah cannot yet get her shoes on. he
feet being still swollen. but at least sh
looks like girl. .
(which she didn't when she got hers
Miss Goldberg said. "shs looked ike
dabby sick old woman"
, One Of ths lsast of the horrors. shaun
sey, that The 0ogmnno hoto sSoIr, ,tSS,-
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