New Britain herald., 1920-08-24
RUSSIAN REFUGEES
 ARRIVE HERE TODAY
Mrs. Fannie GinSburg and Family Reach Destination After Two
 Months of Travel.

Mrs. Fannie Ginsburg, wife of Michael Ginsburg. a merchant, of this city, and her two children, Irving aged 10 years. and Anna, aged 12,
 arrived this morning at the home of Solomon Ginshurg, of APO Church
 street. after a trying journey of eight weeks from their old home in Kartuz
 Bereza, in what is now the new Polish nation.
 The story connected with their journey and return is an interesting one, in as much as the family went 1 through a period, of five years of war fare. Mrs. Ginsburg left here with her children in 1911 to visit her hus- bands and her own relatives in Rus sia. When she arrived the country
 was peaceful, but dark war clouds appeared in 1914 and she tried to re- turn to America. Her husband sent her passage money and she tried to get the American consul to secure passa ge for her. Such was impossible and the family remained in the little ! town. Warsaw, the seat of govern ment activities, was about 300 miles distant and the people were unable 1 to travel to the city, where they had l hoped to harbor themselves during l the war.
 Kartuz Bereza was doomed to a fate l of war and the little town was soon occupied by Russian troops. The in habitants suffered during their pres ence there and they were finally, driven out by the Austrians The allies of the Huns were cruel in their treatment at first. Mrs. Ginsburg l was hitched up as d horse and forced to draw a blow to cultivate the crops. The women suffered other such abuses, but finally were relieved when the officers of the Austrian forces oc- cupied the town. The little children recalled the bombardment by Ger man aeroplane in which men and women were killed in the street in front of their home. The Ginsbergs lived in an underground cave for two days in deadly fear of being killed There was a big mountain back of the town and the Germans and Rus sians fought back, and forth mean
 while smelling the town and killing
 many civilians. Although in the grip
 of war; the local people did not suf-
 fer from lack of food or clothing and
 even reported plenty of sugar dur
 ing the entire period of trouble. The
 Austrians left the town, after staying there three years, when the armistice
 was signed. The Russians returned.
 but were soon driven out h' tho J'"'~9
 who were trying to establish their
 own nation.
 The Jews were badly treated by
 the Poles at first. Young men were caught on the street and killed with
 out cause by virtue of their Jewish
 birth.
 Older men had their boards cut off and underwent other similar abuses.
 The Bolsheviki and Red warfare is vivid in the minds of the returned
 refugees. One morning the little boy
 woke up upon hearing firing and saw the two ia actions in the street fighting. When they left there were dead bodies of Bolsheviks and Poles in the trenches.
 Eight weeks ago the people re- ceived money and tickets for their passage which had been sent from this city through the agency of George A. Quigley about nine months ago. They had secured their pass ports from Washington a year ago. They sailed via the North Sea and Liverpoo1. England and landed at New York last Saturday afternoon.
 Mrs. Ginsburg said this afternoon that the town they lived in was burned about two weeks ago during the new warfare going on there.