Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-03-16
PUTNAM

Death by cold and starvation IN some
unknown corner Of the wastes of ST.
IBERIA was the fate OF the father and
mother and a sister and brother of Louis
IA. Wolf, one Of the best known bust
mess men of this city, a letter received
from Russia reveals.
This missive, written in Hebrew, is
the first bringing tidings of Mr.. VOLTS
relatives that he has received in over
i've years. The news was a tremendous
Shock to Mr.. Wolf
Prior to the outbreak of the World
war his parents and such brothers and
sisters of his family as had not emf
grated to America lived near Kovno, not
Instant from the Baltic sea and Ger
man frontier.
The great conflict that swept Europe
dixie a. holacust and eventually develop
ed the Russian revolution and the as
tendency of Trotzky and Lerine and
their Bolshewst hordes spelled disaster
for members of the Wolf family
Mr.. and Mrs. Israel Wolf, parents OF
Mr. Wolf, and two of his brothers and
two of his sisters, were among the I'M
| numbered scores of thousands of refu.
gees that were driven eastward from
their homes into Siberia under the
| stress of the BolsheYik regime. How
Qe-
tails of their privaa,ions still remain I'M
ing the tale of death tells that the par
| ents and two of the children-a brother
and a sister-perished under the fright
full conditions that all of the refugees
| faced and that only one brother and
one sister, represented as being in pitia-
bile condition, remain alive to send up
their voices in a call for aid from their
| kin in this part of the world.
| . Tragedy and the real horror of the
| World war-of which this great nation
really Knows very Mttle-are written in
ITO every line of the letter that has
come to Mr.. Wof. Its pages tell of the
terrible sweep of the refugees over hum
dreds upon hundreds of miles of coun-
try separating them from their home
territory of their exile in almost bound
less Siberia, with it's endless wastes. and
of their suffer!ngs during its TERRIBLE
winters Of the death of 10000 of these
abandoned people-by freezing and
starvation-as by bolshevik permission
they endeavored to make their way
back to European Russia; of the eat
dng of grass and twigs and bark Of
trees in their desperate effort to keep
body and soul together until some
prayed for aid should come.
Even now the barriers set UP by the
| HIenlnG government Will lOI leIHFh Liz
two survivors of the Wolf family tc
communicate directly Win their brother
dn this city. The letter he mas receiv-
ed came from an old friend of the fam
iIy to whom the brother and sister who
have survived the terrible experience OF
exile and aba ndonment have writer
and asked them to get in touch with the
brother here
The letter furnishes an address-so-
MIA Wolf State and City of Perenl, los
Perewiskoe Street, Apaditium. 3, Rus
STA. to which Mr.. Wolf has rushed aid
Through use of food drafts and Mas
forwarded funds through New York.
Even now he is uncertain as 10
whether the bountdful relief he has for
warded will be received in time to save
the surviving brother and sister from
death. They have suffered terribly and
are worn almost to the point of death.
The clearing I'D of the mystery of the
date of his parents and of other mem
bers of the family In Russia has been a
blow to Mr.. Wolf, who, however, had