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& girls, old men, the maimed, the blind, the diseased
the crippled the insane, pellmell into the cars they are packed
facing the rigors of winter without shelter or food.
Why is all these atrocities? Only because they & only
because they are Jews. For this reason, an appeal is
being made to the world & we think it can be done with
perfect propriety. The burden of relief is too great for the
American Jew hence he will call upon his Christian brother
-- yes he will call upon him the 1^st time in American history,
A truly a marvellous record. In order to stir the
souls of the people to their very depths, I have read one of the following graphic
the account of recital of conditions along in the war zones
was read at Carnegie Hall the other night among many others.
"Along the whole line of battle for example, along the line from
Lublin to Rovno, along that whole line there was progrom
after pogrom, & the word pogrom has become part of the English
language because of the excesses practiced upon the Jews.
Countless progroms have been practiced without our hearing
a word of it without a rumor having come to our ears,
& along the line of battle in Lublin & all other cities