The Denver Jewish news., 1919-05-14
Millions OF Jews Face
Death From Privations
FIRST REPORT SINCE ARMIsTICE
MADE BY AMERICAN EfE-WIT-
NESSES.

NESSES.
New York, May 5-Detailed reports
Icy American eyewitnesses Of the act
ual present conditions. affecting the
| populations of Poland. Czecho-SlO-
Palestine. Siberia and other countries
of Europe and the East compiled
since the close of the European War.
are today made public by fthe Joint
distribution Committee OF the Amer
ican Funds for Jewish War Suffer-
ers, of which Felix NJ. Warburg OF
the banking house of Kuhn. Loeb and
Co., is the chairman.
The reports are. in many instances.
the first word received directly from
american sources describing the ter
rible sufferings. privations and hard
ships which are being undergone By
millions of Jews thruout the world
and toward the alienation of which
the Joint Distribution Committee has
TO date disbursed more than $25.OOO.-
900 contributed by all sections OF
American Jewry.
While in general way. it has, of
course, been known that the popula-
lions were largely without food and
clothing. the conditions narrated are
even more appalling than has hither-
to been suspected. On many Occa-
siOns the representatives Of the Joint
Distribution Committee, comprising
Commission of Jews sent from the
United States, and the members OF
which are scattered thruout the vari-
GUS countties, have. they report, re-
turned to their lodging overcome by
The scenes they have Witnessed and
unable to sleep or rest.
The gamut of human misery is
reached In the reports received. which
tell not alone of starvation and utter
destitution. but Of the ravases OF di-
staxe. the spread OF eplienncr, coM-
liete lack OF clothing and OF housing
facilities. in short, of the terrific
plight OF hundreds Of thousands Of
human beings, penniless, worthless
hopeless.
The members of the commission, in
addition to their own observations.
have been aided by reports received
by the American Relief Administrsl-
ton which, under the direction Of Her
bert Hoover. is distributing American
food supplies. They have been III
especially close touch with Lewis
Strauss, Mr.. HoOver's representative
in Paris, from whom much information
and assistance have been secured.
The members OF the commission,
and from among whose reports thc
Following facts are quoted, include:
I'r. Boris ID. Bogen, lsidOrc HersE.
Iield and Bernard Horwich, who are
Il. Poland; Barnet Zuckerman, who
is at Brest-Litovsk; DIR. Solomon
I.owenstcin, returning from Palestine;
Miss Hetty Goldman, on her way to
Hounnniu, following extended visits
10 Greece and Serbia; Rabbi Aaron
1eitelbaum, whose headquarters are
ut Constantinople and whose investi'
cations cover Turkey and Syria:
Henry q. Alsberg. in CzechO-SlOvakia
Jacob Billikopf. Sholem Asch, Morris
Engleman, Meyer Gillis, Max Pine.
who are at the headquarters of the
Netherlands branch of the Joint Dis
French capital.
The situation in Poland is graphi-
cally described by DIR. Boris -. Bog
TN. who has possibly been most deep
ly impressed with the attitude OF the
population itself, and Of which hc
says among other things:
THE population has seen and felt
so much of suffering that ii has he
come calloused to hardship and 10
want, but the spectacle of hundreds OF
starving children, of women, in thu
biting cold, clad only in the scantiest
vi filthy rags, and of men, iistlessly
ard aimlessly walking the streets ask
ing for bread. has deeply affected the
committees representatives"
Under date of March 10 DIR. Bogen
tells of the arrival in Poland of the
81, 200, 600 cargo of food on the steam
ship .swestward Ho," sent Jointly by
the Joint Distribution Committee and
Relief Committee of the i'olish Ma
tional Department ins America, NJ.
event. which be declares, marks an
Ar1,nh In, fha histnrv Of Isnland +" This