The Denver Jewish news., 1921-01-19
Geneva Assembly and
Jewish Memorandum
COMMITTEE OF JEWISH DELE
CATIONS AT PARIS HEARS RE-
PORT OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS
MEETING.

l@tdSut VI At hait
ber of noted Jewish representatives
speaking in the name of the commit
tee of Jewish delega lions in Paris, the
Jewish Board of Deputies and the
Anglo-Jewish Association, the Alliance
Israelite Universelle and the Jewish
Territorial organization appeared be
fore the officers of the Assembly and
presented memorandums with regard
to the continued prosecutions of the
Jews in Eastern Europe and che fail
urc of some of the new and enlarged
states to put into effect the provisions
of the treaties guaranteeing the rights
Of minorities in these lands.
Several cables, with regard to these
representations, seeking the good of
fices of the League of Nations in Sc
curing just treatment for the Jews
were then received by the Provisional
Organization for an American Jewish
Congress and by the Jewish press in
this city.
The memorandum on pogroms ac
companied as it was by important doc
uments containing evidence of the eS.
ccsses against the Jews then attract.
ed special attention. This memor-
andurn bears the signatures of Nahum
SOkolow, Lucien Wolff and Israel
Zangwill was made public. The
statement addressed to the president
Of the Assembly of the League of Ma.
fious iS Ms follows.
Hotel Beau Seiour, Geneva, Deccn-
her Sth, 1920.
Your EXcellency,
The Undersigned, on behalf Of the
representative Jewish organizations
whose names are appended. have the
honour to invite Your Excellency's at.
tcntiOn and the attention of the High
Assembly over which your Excellency
prcsidcs, to the present terrible situa-.
tion of the grcnt Jewish masses In
lmbiting the countries Of Eastern Eu-
iope.
A cry of panic and disaess reaches
,is from large tracts of that immense
region. After the appalling trials ex-
periencel by the Jewish population. in
common with their non-Jewish fellow
countrymen during the world war, in
which they bore their part of sucri-
ficcs, of sorrows and of hopes for n
happier future. fresh and even more
frighiful storm burst upon them III
the shape of new war-a war of ex-
Termination directed exclusively
against them-the War of PogrOms.
During the past two years the most
thickly populated centers of Jewish
succession of pOgrOms. The hecatombs
of ProskurOv. the massacres of Umnn.
the carnage of Fastov, the funernl
pyres and devastation in hundreds OF
towns, the sears of ancient Jewish
communities, the atrocities and cruel
ties inflicted, the disasters and agon-
les suffered. constitute catastrophe
which has no parallel in the troubled
history of the Eastern Jews during
recent centuries. Brutalised hordes,
with 10 thought but to kill, to dis
honor, to burn and destroy, have de
scended in masses on the Jewish COLI
munitics. devastating their homes and
maltreaCing and numbering their
peaceful and innocent inmates with
bcstiality and fury which defy descrip-
ton. Everywhere men and women, OLD
and young. the nged, the infirm and
the helpless, were mutilatetl, tortured,
outraged, burnt, buried alive; scores
of communities overwhelmed or deci'
mated, rheir hearths, their cemeteries,
their sanctuaries destroyed or desc
Grated every house either u ruin or q
wailing place; thousands of enaciat-
ed fugitives wandering in the forests
and hiding in caverns and, most
pitiable of ALL many thousands of or
phaned children hungry. naked and
homeless, their young lives poisoned
by terror and vagabondage
Such is the spectacle presented by
large parI of the Jewry of Eastern
Europe. Never since the middle ages
has the Pogrom Monster appeared in
such terrible guise. What torrents of
blood has he made to flow! How
many victims has he deprived of life!
When an immense abyss of misery has
he dug. On how vast a scale have
human law and divine truth been out
ragged and set at nOught! And what
perhaps, is still more terrible is che
continuation of the anguish, the haunt
ing fears of every hour. the dread OF
Il final catastrophe which keeps all
minds on n poignant alert. Millions
of human beings are troubled and par
alysed, abandoned to fatalism and des-
rair. This tragedy has not failed to