The Denver Jewish news., 1919-04-30
Immediate War Relief
Is Imperative
sUFFERlNGs OF JEWS IN PM AND
DESCRIBED BY EYE-WITNESSES

Milton NJ. Anfenger, treasurer of
the Jewish War Relief committee has
Just received the following letter 1t
pOrtrays the sufferings of our fellow
Jews most vividly. After reading the
description of such great suffering.
no one will feel that the necessity for
giving help to them is past.
New York. April ~. 1919.
My dear Mr.. Anfenger:
Your favor of the 18th inst to hand,
enclosing $70O.OO, for which you will
please find receipt No. 5S!'O+
The other day we received a telr
gram from Rabbi HalpeN. referring
to an article that appeared in the
''Amerikaner' signed by Malitz. which
article had absolutely no foundation
whatsoever. and was written with
malice. We have. in our reply to Rabbi
HalDern, said:
article in Amerikancr has no basis
whatsoever Millions of dollars for
"uluCh " ltW uohthN
million dollars worth of colthing ap
prOpriated; half million dollars cotton
seed oil for Poland and neighboring
territory, quarter million dollar
monthly appropriation asked to he in
creased half million monthly by DIR.
BOgen and Bernard Horwich and 9TH
h., Of y
l wish to supplement this telegram
OF ours by narrating three stories thar
have Just reached us from abroad:
In hospital visited in Warsaw by
DIR. Chain Yidei Davis. a. Chicago phy-
sician interested In relief work, over
heard the squeal of newborn in:hnt
starting out of her head from star
vation. exclaimed: My God. why
should children be born when their
mothers have no milk to nOurish them.
no clothing to cover them, and no hop,.
for them but DEATH
From the same source, We get the
following description:
In an ancient synagog. crowded will.
Jewish refugees from everywhere, DIR
Davis saw hOrrifying scenes. des,rilr
ing the return of people from Russii,
seeking their old homes in Poland.
There were men. women and children
in an indiscriminate mass. swarming
over the floor of the synagog, which
was their only refuge, most of then
sick with typhus. They were lying
On the ground. and the few that were
not sick were sleeping amidst thu
grouns and tossing of those dying OF
fever and hunger. One woman had
not bread for four days, and when
bit was given to her, she looked
greedily at it and said. Cant you
give some to my dying husband and
sick child?"
A similar scene was witnessed in
Pinsk before the masscre:
In an orphan asylum in Pinsk, nr-
dinarily intended to house sixty chill
dren. there were three hundred cf
the little ones. representing eyer.'
stage of nanitiOn-children that look
cd old tho they were not, constituted
fully more than two hundred in that
crowd. All of them represented in
stances where parents had been killed
at the front or during pogron's. or
starved by the wayside, and more OF
these little ones were being brought
in day in and day out. Net oac Of
them had a bit of bread to eat, or
clothing to speak Of. There was no
heat in the building. There was an
evident want of linen. and an insult
ficiency of soap.
trust that you will see to it that
my letter as addressed to you il given
circulat tion among those who may have
been influenced in the belief that
there is no need for further aid. and
in that way you will nor alone he
able to continue to collect from all
branches Of your community as much
as they have been giving, but TN the
contrary. obtain larger measure of
relief because of the terrio,, con,li-
tions described in my letter.
Yours very truly,
STANLEY BERO. Manager