The Denver Jewish news., 1920-01-14
Denekine's Volunteers
Pogrom Kiev Jews
THOUSANDS SLAIN. OTHERS DY-
ING OF COLD. HUNGER AND
DISEASE. LETTER OF PROTEST
AGAINST POGROMS FROM DIR,
NORDAU.

cation at the Peace Sohierehee has
forwarded from Paris to the American
Jewish Congress, 1 Madison Avenue,
The following communication relating
TO the pogrom which recently took
place in the city of Kiev and nearby
localities in which hundreds of per-
sons lost their lives. The communi-
ciltiOn reads:
We are informed from Constantin-
ople by an absolutely reliable source
that terrible pogrom took place in
Kiev from the 14th to the 18th of
October. The massacrcs We're instigat-
cd by the semi-official anti-semitic
fress, especially by the newspapers
published by the well-knOwn polite
ian Choulgine, and assisted by the
volunteers. The number of victims has
not yet been definitely established. Ac-
cording to various accounts from news
rapers and eye witnesses, there were
thousands killed. But it is even now
quite certain that. several hundreds OF
Jews perished. The number of those
KILLED by the saber and the bayonet
was frightful. The Jewish intellectual
class has been exterminated Each
wave of massacre lasted half an hour.
The city then resounded with heart
Iending cries as during an earth
quake. The executioners allowed the
Jews to choose the form of death and
to designate the one who was to he
first killed. a great number of won
en and young girls, having applied
to the civil authorities for aid and
protection. were brutally driven away.
They fled to their houses and jumped
out of windows in order not to. fall
into the hands Of the murderers.
The pogrom in Kiev is confirmed by
n great number of ssussian Journals
which are subjects to the censorship
of Denikine's army. The .'Priasowsky
Krlir which is published in ROstev-
on-the-Don. the seat of the central gov
ernment of Denikine, gives the follow
ing details about the pogrom:
..The Jewish Community of Kiev Is
occupied exclusively i'll organizing re-
lief. The number of victims is so
great that 1t is almost impossible to
20 to the assistance of the starved
persons. bereft of clothing and shelter.
In the Podole quarter almost LOO
Jewish victims of pilloge during the
pcgrom are registered; in the Lybed
quarter 5000 in that of the Jewish
Market. :.OO0 the situation of all
these unfortuntes grows worse from
duy to day on account of the very rig
oraus winter"
According to the "Sowremennoye,
which is subject to the military CEN
sorship, pogroms have taken place, In
addition. in the following localities sit
mated in the region of Kiev:
Borispol. Grebenks. Smielo. kors''n,
Germanovka, Tcherkassy, Atakarow.
Goroditicht ChiblennOye, KOrito, Dy-
mer. Stephanzy, Tripolie, Rossoyo,
AIotoviloska.
The following protest against the
posroms in Ukrainia and appeal in be-
half of the victims of these massacres
written by DIR. Max Nordau, the noted
European publicist and Jewish leader,
who is now visiting England, was made
uubIic yesterday by Bernard &. Rich
ards, Secretary of the American Jew
isb Congress.
The Communication from DIR. Nor
dau is addressed to Meir Grossman,
secretary of the Jewish National Coun-
,;,,;, nan. ,hn nf fhn
Central Jewish Relief Committee OF
fhat country. who has recently arriv-
ed here in the interests of the Ukrain-
ian Jewish sufferers. The letter says: I:
You are going to America in order
to arouse the sympathies Of our trans
atlantic brothers for our martyrs in
rhe Ukraine and TO appeal to them
Tor aid in behalf of the tragic victims
Of the bestiality of certain sections OF
I,cnikin's hosts-I refuse to call this
blood thirsty rabble an army.
81 wish you the greatest possible
success. and am sure you will achieve
it. You are exerting yourself for a
sacred cause. There are no words to
describe adequately the terrifying sit
uation of our unhappy brothers expos
cd defenseless to the furious, murder
ous, british outrages of an armed
mob which revels in the most abomin-
able crimes and shrinks back from no
infamy. We have not sufficient tears
to weep and vail foy the tens of
thousands of our people who have
peen cold bloodedly murdered after
unspcakable tortures. l shudder when
evoking in my mind the state of last
ing agony in which hundreds of
thousands of Jewish men, women