The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-06-02

Bamberg, South Carolina, is dis
tance Of about seven thousand miles
the Wav one would have to travel 10
make the trip. This is long way to
travel to secure a home, but just sucil
a trip has just been made by Misses
Salicia and Fikcia WiniaWker, two
little Poland Jewesses, nieces Of Sam
Zimmerman, of this city. The girls
arrived in New York two weeks ago
through the good Offices Of Sam, and
thev came TO Bamberg Sunday night
to make their home with their Amerl-
canized uncle.
Sam is very fond Of the girls, and
could hardly wait for the time to
come when they would be with him.
Being members Of family once
prominent in affairs in their home
CITY, the name Of which makes it
much easier to say somewhere IN
Poland" the fortunes Of war reduced
them to a penniless condition.
Throughout the pas@ several years
Mr.. Zimmerman has been sending
money to Poland for their support.
He has never made any show Of sup
porting his home folks, which is a
we'll known virtue Of Jews, but Sam s
close friends know that it has cost
him a sum of money greater than
most people would imagine.
For months past Sam has been try
ing to get the girls to America, where
he can attend to their education and
give them the environments and CON-
forts Of real home.
Salicia is seventeen years Of age,
while her sister, Fikcia, is fifteen.
Their father is dead, having died
year or two ago. He served through
out the war in the armies of Poland.
The girls left their home on March
25, going by train to Antwerp, Bel
gium. After a short stay there, their
passports were vised by the American
consul, and the long ocean voyage to
New York was begun. Though the
distance from Antwerp to New York
seems to US like a long one, the vast
area of Poland may be imagined
when it is stated that the trip from
their home to Antwerp was about the
same distance as from New York to
Liverpool: Only twelve days were re-
quired on the trip from Antwerp to
New York, where they landed on the
10th day of May. They spent while
at the home Of Sans brother in New
York.
Sunday morning Sam went to Flor
ence to meet them, and he says that
although he has seen neither OF the
girls since they were little tots, he
recognized them on sight.
Monasterzska, while located in Po-
land, was in the Polish area of the
Austrian empire before the war.
Since the war, government has been
set I'D in Poland, with the great mu
sician, Paderewski, as president. Pad
erewski has resigned and is now in
America, but his government is go
ing on. Before the war, Mr.. Zimmer-
man states, the Austrian government
was sympathetic toward the Jews,
contrary to the Russian government,
which persistently prosecuted them.
With the new government, which he
says is decidedly anti-SemitSc, the
Polish Jews have been subjected to
the same prosecutions as prevailed in
Russia before the war. This condi-
tion has made life miserable for Sans
people. as we'll as all other Jews, and
it has been a fond hope for a long
time that Sam would be able to bring
his nieces to America aWaysfrom per
secution where they might enjoy the
same freedom that he has for many
years.
Sam Z:mT erman is we'll known
merchant of Damberg who has made
quite a success Of merchandising here
He has owned his home here for some
time, and at the present time is re-