The Denver Jewish news. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-1925, 1920-05-19
How Relief is Brought
to Suffering Europe
STARVATION. DISEASE, APATHY
AND HOPELESSNESS COMBAT
TED BY AMERICANS SENT by
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMIT
TEE,

The great campaign in New York for
$7.JOOO00 comes at n time when the
work of the Joint Distribution com
mittee must become increasingly com
prehensive in scope. when new conn
tries in Eastern Europe. which for
years have waited for our assistance,
are being opened for relief work. and
the cry for help from these countries,
where the work is already going on.
is becoming ever more urgent.
The Commission to Soviet Russia.
Having obtained permission from
the State Department to send com
mission to Soviet Russia. the commit
tee has begun to seek ways and means
10 open as soon as possible the gates
Of Soviet Russia for its commission
crs and the relief they carry. So far
its efforts have partly succeeded; two
members of the Ukrainian Commmis-
sion, Judge Harry Fisher. of Chicago,
and Mr.. Max Pine of New York. are
already en- route to Soviet Russia. The
ether two members. Professor Israel
Friedlander and Mr.. Morris Kass are
at present in Copenhagen. and every
thing possible is being done to enable
them to set out on their mission with
ont any unnecessary delay.
Relief Workers Accompany Advancing
POliss, Troops to the Ukraine.
The object of the commission which
Is seeking entrances to Soviet Russia
IS to bring salvation to the hundreds
of thousands of Jews whom the block
nde has cut off from their brethren
in other lands For the most terrible
experiences of all have fallen to the
lot of the Ukrainian Jews: who not
only have lost one hundred thousand
men thru the pogrOms and have been
totally ruined by the incesSant wars
in that territory, hut are also paying
a frightful toll to the typhus and other
tpidemics which are raging there. Re-
lief for the Jews of the Ukrainc comes
first on the program Of the Ukr'sin-
ian Commission. Recent events are
simplifying the difficult task of eff
fecting an entrance into the Ukraine.
Just as everything is being done to
open new way into this hitherto clos
ed territory thru the Soviet Govern
ment. developments in Eastern Europe
are creating another possibility of
reaching that region. The new Polish
offensive in the Ukraine is continual
ly enlarging the territory to which the
representatives of the Joint Distri-
button committee have free access F;
and its Warsaw office. sciZing the
opportunity, has already sent there
Captain F. Voorsanger. member of
init ], and our own DIR. Charles ID.
Spivak. who accompany the Polish
army and bring aid TO every city oc-
cupied by the troops.
The Report of Judge Fisher and Max
Pine.
That the Jewish situation in the
Ukraine is horrible beyond belief may
be seen from n report by Judge Fish
er and Max Pine whicn has just
reached the committee. These MEM
hers of the Ukrainian commission last
March visited that part of the Ukraine.
which was even then occupied by
Polish troops: and their report. Il doc
ument of As pages. is full of descrip-
tion of atrocities and horrors that com
pare with the darkest pages in his
tory. The report makes it clear that
unless the Jews of the Ukraine receive
immediate relief on large scale, GER
tain destruction is awaiting those who
until now have escaped war. pogroms
and epidemics.
S35O,OOO More for ROumania.
Less evidence of bloodshed hut
enough of epidemics. misery. and help
lessness is contained in the latest re-
ports from Roumania and Bukowinn.
War and i-Semitism have wrecked
Jewish life in those lands, and disease.
which finds fertile soil in poverty
and want. is completing the havoc.
The Joint Distribution committee,
therefore, hus recently appropriated
$3.50 900, in addition TO the regular
budget for monthly relief. for medical
and constructive work in all parts of
Greater Roumania. 1t is hoped that
this money. which will enable a large
number of Jews to return to their
former occupations and will improve
the health of the Jewish population.
will bring about Il thoro change in the
condition of the Roumanian Jews.
Constructive Relief Work Now Going
on in Poland.