The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-10-25
Starring Jews in Eastern {
rope Will Perish Unless
Relief is Sent at Once
LOOK 70 AMERICA FOR Hell.
Or. Krass. Noted Rabbi, Says Chi
dren Are Forced to Turn Beqqars.
New Jerseys Part in Drive
to Relieve Suffering.


of Jews in Eastern Europe from freez
ing to death during the coming winter
according to DR.. Nathan Krass, rabb
Of the Central Synagogue, Lexingto.
avenue and Fifty-hfth street, New Yorl
and a member of the American Jewisi
Relief Committee, which is now con
Quoting a series of State campaigns t.
raise $4,000, 900 for relief work. DR.
Krass returned recently from thre
months in Eastern Europe, where h
was sent as a special delegate of TIL
Joint Distribution Committee of Amer
can Funds for Jewish Sufferers from
the war.
Starvation, terrible hardships and per
secutions that bring the middle ages t
mind are the portion of the Jews i
many OF the places visited. he declares
Barefoot, wrapped in rags and weal
from years of hunger, they are lookin.
forward with terror tc the coming o
the winter. Only shipments of cloth,
and shoes and many additional sou
kitchens and milk stations can kee
them alive during the coming wintel
he reports
Live on Cup of Soup q Day.
When the people heard / was fror
the United States they crowded aroun
me. trying to kiss my coat and begginf
me to ask my country to keep them from
starvation" DR.. Krass said: 81 saw
hundreds of orphans on the streets
wasted children who are either toe
weak to cry, or who have cried as
grown up people do. turning way their
faces to hide their tears. ! saw thou
sands of starving mothers who were
desolate, not on their account alone
but because they had no food to give
their children. ] saw people living on
one cup OF soup day, who saved some
Of that to give c~ripples who could not
go after their own.
There are thousands and thousands
of starving Jews in Rumania without
shoes, almost without clothes. In
Vienna alone there are between 80, 00C
and 10000 refugee Jews, living on the
plate OF soup and the piece of bread thai
they get every day from the Jewish re-
lief stations
Our committee sent 500 hungry chill
dren from Vienna to Holland where
certain Jewish families had promised
to receive them in their homes for three
or four months. The Austrian Govern
lnent furnished the train for them to
go. When their parents saw them
leave. although they did not know just
when they would see their children
again, or whether they themselves might
be sent from Vienna before they came
back. they tried to cheer, they were so
walton behind.
Many Forced to Turn Beggars.
IN SenGtr, in Vienna, in Bucharest
and in all other places | visited there
were thousands of beggars, men, women
and children, on the streets Many OF
them had been middle-class tradesmer
before the war. but had lost everything
they had and could get no work, |
talked with one woman whose husband
had been killed by robbers and whose
son had lost his important government
position through the change in politics
Her family was on the verge of starva-
ton. ] bought her a stand in the mar
ket place where she could sell vegetables
though it is hard TO make money by
selling food there, where few have pen
MES with which TO buy, and where there
is almost nothing to sell"
Just across the river from bcnaer
DR.. Krass heard the shots of the Bol-
sheviks. while the people crowded IL
cellars.
81 saw a woman with three OF her
children hiding from the shells on one
side Of a cellar" said DIR. Krass. On
the other side were her husband and
another child. They had been there
many hours, and she went upstairs To
see if she could get the children some
food While she was gon. the cellar
caved in, killing her husband II one
hid She was 95 years old. but looked
At least Sc, because OF hunger and hard
ships and grief.
Fifteen Families in a Shack.
IN Kisenheff ! saw a blind woman
lying on a bare board in bags and filth
II a terrible shack Her old mother had
been taken to the hospital, and neigh
5ors almost as desperately situated as
herself, brought her food. | saw if
cen families living in one huge shack
a large platform with a root over ii.
Most Of this platform was extremely
dirty but one corner or il was very
lean. found that the people who
lived in that one clean spot had been
nealthy before the war.
In my mind the only thing that can
save the lives Of hundreds of thousands
Of Jews in Eastern Europe during the
coming winter is large shipments OF
food clothing and bedding
The campaign being conducted In