The Denver Jewish news., 1919-05-14
Of Jews Face Death
from PrivationS
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administration. The ship itself is an
auxiliary vessel of the American Navy
and sailed under the command of nav
al officers.
Describing typical school. known
rs Frobel school, or school for small
children. Dir. Bogen says: 'arhe school
is situated ON the third floor in
tenement house. There are three
teachers. The teachers are one man
aud two women, earnest and synipa
tlietic, but the children are miscrubly
dressed and siclsly-loosing, with flab-
by, what seemed to be, swollen faces.
Jhey spoke Yiddish and asked ques-
tions about. America and whether we
had brought food. They used 10 get
two meals day, but lately lave
received only one. The teachers
thought, however, that this was
enough. and said in explanation tile
children are used to going hungry
and can now stand much better the
consequences The rooms were ter
ribly cold, for there was no coal. Coat
is now about ten marks for a pud
90 pounds) and then it is almost i'm
possible to get"
From the new nation of Czeclio-
slovakia the commission has been
represented by Henry 6. Alsberg, a
trained observer and journalist. His
reports from Prague are of the d ties
OF March 10 and March ..
/ In addition TO the terrific want
caused by lack of food, funds, OF eni-
ployment, Mr.. Alsberg. in his ea:lier
repart. dated March ). in ueiail, des,
cribcs the anti-Semitic feeling which
has led to pogroms and has prevented
large numbers of the Jews from do
ing business or obtaining employment
\ boycott of all Jews has been propos-
cd, which would mean absolute STAR
vation for the entire Jewish popula-
ton. He says:
since wrote you last. / have
leen looking about. me aid have
reached the conclusion that the stu
is unbelievabIy bad.
'.In the first place, thruout Czccho-
Slovakia. from the signing of the ar
nistice up to perhaps a month ago,
there was plundering and lootm,; Of
Jewish shops and homes, and in one
case. ut any rate, real pogrom thai
OF Hillischau, where two Jews were
killed and, n large n,imber wounded
sloyakia proved the sssellc sssellc of the worst
prosecutions and abuses. Bu; now the
situation there has become better. IN
Prague and Bohemia and Morayia il
Itas become decidedly worse. The re-
suit of this persecution which lasted
into January, was that many people
we're driven out of the small towns
where life became unbearabie, and
took refuge in the larger towns. This
Is creating n new Jewish proletariat
of destitute and unemployed. The ac-
tive. countrywide, physical oppres-
sion, seems. for the time, to have stop
ped, however.
However. the conditions in PraSue,
Bohemia and Moravia, generally are
most precarious, as distinguished from
Slovakia. The anti-Semitism, what
ever its cause, is quite beyond belief.
1t happens frequently that Jews are
stopped on the streets by legionaries
and insulted and beaten up. Jews
have been chased out of cafes and
beaten up by the crowds outside await
ing them. Popular prejudice is such,
that, in the opinion of the best in
formed people, real reign of vic
icnce against the Jews may breas out
at any moment. As it is. even now
the Jews in Prague, who control about
IL per cent of the business, close their
shops all afternoon for fear of the
mob.
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