The Denver Jewish news., 1919-11-05
The Destruction Of Sny-
attn, a Galician Village
NOW IN THE HANDS, OF ROT.
MANIA AFTER SUFFERING BN
THE INVADING RUSSIAN ARM
les.
BY LEO woLrsoS..


During my trip thru Eastern Europe
/ saw much suffering-but nowhere
slid find misery so deep and pow
erty SO wretched as in Snyatin-a
village in Eastern Galicia. The in
habitants did not wecp-they had long
before shed all their tears, and pour
ed out all their lamentations. The
entire village was In ruins. Most OF
the houses were completely demolish-
ed-their roofs gone; and the few
houses which still stood were like
skeletons of homes-without windows
or doors. Walking thru the streets
one has the sensation of being in a
cemetery. 1t is quiet, calm; infre-
uucntly, human being passes-and
the few persons one happens to see.
barring the soldiers. sit dejectedly on
lie thresholds of their houses--gazlngl
at the sky-and waiting for salvation
from there; perhaps, too, they are
waiting for the Angel Of Death to
come and release them from their too
heavy burdens Few children are
therc-and these run about barefoot,
in rags. looking for sonething-thcy
themselves do not know what 1t Is. !
saw no young men there-and several
older girls ran into q house when they
saw me they were ashamed 10 let III"
see how ragged and threadbarc they
were!
An aged Jew. whom ] approached
tn tell me where the president of the
kchillah lived. accompanied Inc to the
teacher. Sandig and on the way. the
old man poured out his bitter tale of
woe to me. "Our life here has al
ways been hard one; we have always
had our troubles, but in recent times.
all thru the time of the war. we have
hardly lived at ALL Gods wrath has
hecn hcaped upon US. and every second,
has been fun Of misery. For mouths
at time we have lived In dread of
dcath--if 1t were not by bullet. then
hy q shell bursting in the. street or
In the house. And whoever escaped
bullets and shells was certain of tor
iurc and death at the hands of Rus
sim or other soldiers-and those who
survived that fate we're cut down by
hunger or cold. The few persons who
are left living would !. better of
d.,d-may God forgive me for such
,v,5,,s -
The teacher. San,iiy is the Jewish
,.,,,.r NJ ,be village "What shall I
,,il you, my dear brother?" he asked
ma. .wha. you t,,n see must sneak
r,,ch more effectively than anything
!. csn say We are living here in
..,,,, want and tlesolution.. and there
,,nears to he no end, We have no
str,po,h ,cft 10 suff~r. Forgotten ny
,oa and tho world. II is our bitter
Ia. 70 perish here Of hunger or OF
.o,a Winter IN cominr-I do not be-
i,ovo that we can withstand another
y;nteru
..po vou NOT receive help from any
ona, Have vou not received any
,,opev from American" 1 asked.
"Evervthinr IL called help," he
si.s,ei. Eve have received nothing
,;ractlv from America-and the l.ttlc
,.,n wc have received has Just suf-
f,ced IN keen body and soul together
nm 70 now. If not for that. no one
would be left alive here today. Many
families have died out. There is not
enc family which has not lost some.
ope we live here in absolute de-
,cction.
.practicoliy eyery Jew is in need
NJ help-yery few are able to help
,nemselves. There is no work. trade
is Mt standstiii' ana man ~ oa'e.'