Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-10-24
Starving Jews in Eastern Eu-
rope viii Perish Unless
Relief is Sent al Once
LOOK TO AMERICA FOR HELP
Or. krass, Noted Rabbi, Says Chill
dren Are Forced to Turn Beggars.
New jerseys Part in Drive
to Relieve Suffering.

Newark, N. J.-Only prompt action
on the part of the people of the United
States can save hundreds of thousands
of Jews in Eastern Europe from freez-
ing to death during the coming winter,
according TO DR.. Nathan Krass, rabbi
of the Central Synagogue, Lexington
avenue and Fifty-hfth street, New York
and a member of the American Jewish
Relief Committee, which is now con-
Quoting a series of State campaigns to
raise $4,000, 900 for relief work. DIR.
Krass returned recently from three
months in Eastern Europe, where he
was sent as a special delegate of the
F.. Joint Distribution Committee of Ameri-
can Funds for Jewish Sufferers from
the war.
Starvation, terrible h~ardships and per-
secutions that bring the middle ages to
mind are the portion of the Jews in
many of the places visited, he declares.
Barefoot, wrapped in rags and weak
from years OF hunger, they ars looking
forward with terror to the coming of
the winter. Only shipments of clothes
and shoes and many additional soup
kitchens and milk stations can keep
them alive during the coming winter,
he reports.
Live on Cup of Soup a Day.
when the people heard l was from
the United States they crowded around
me, trying to kiss my coat, and begging
me to ask my country to keep them from
starvation" DIR. Krass said 81 saw
hundreds of orphans on the streets,
wasted children who are either too
weak to cry, or who have cried as
grown up people do, turning away their
faces to hide their tears. | saw thou
sands of starving mothers who were
desolate, not on their own account alone,
but because they had no food to give
their children. ] saw people living on
one cup of soup a day, who saved some
of that to give cripples 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 10000
and 10000 refugee Jews, living on the
plate of soup and the piece of bread that
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
Up receive them in their homes for three
or four months. The Austrian Govern
ment 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
glad the youngsters were leaving star
walton behind.
Many Forced to Turn Beg1ars.
I'm Bender, 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 tradesmen
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-i
ton. I bought her a stand in the mari
ket place where she could sell vegetables,
though it is hard to make money byi
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 Bender
DR.. Krass heard the shots of the Boil.
sheviks. while the people crowded ii
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 gone the cellar.
caved in, killing her husband and onel
child. She was rs years old, but looked
ut least So, because of hunger and hard
ships and grief.
Fifteen Families in a Shack.
III NlsCillCl L saw q AlhN WOAildil
lying on a bare board in bags and filth
In a terrible shack Her old mother had
been taken to the hospital, and neigh
bors, almost as desperately situated as
herself, brought her food. ! saw IF
teen families living in one huge shack
n large platform with q roof over it
Most of this platform was extremely
dirty, but one corner or it was very
clean. ! found that the people who
lived in that one clean spot had beea
wealthy 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 o.
food, clothing and bedding"
The campaign being conducted in
New Jersey from October 30 to % is