Show JW JEWS Wr WEEP A Ar AS r POLAND lANn I IS i 1 D C mD I 1 Returned Delegate Pictures vo Horrifying Conditions to Chicago Gathering S. S i By Stanley Bero Manager of the Central Relief Committee Com Corn as Related by Bernard Horwich Horwich Hor Hor- of Chicago Special Delegate Delegato to Poland Fresh From the Scene Scena of the Horror of Horrors Their heads bowed sixty representatives representatives representatives of the central relief committee com comprising New Yorks York's Jewish Orthodoxy among them distinguished rabbis wept silently as Bernard HorwIch Hor Hor- of Chicago their special delegate to Poland who went there under the auspices of 01 the Joint distribution committee committee com corn told tales of 01 woe he carried from devastated starving Poland There was as a restraint In the speakers speaker's voice an obvious effort to control surging emotion as he unfolded what i at times sounded like a a. story invented in invented in- in vented by a mad genius of 01 weird fiction I It was a story not of mere eyewitness eyeWitness eye eye- I witness but of 01 one who felt and 1 suffered and struggled with those hose j I whose cause he was championing Lacking In oratorical embellishment f the story aside from its pervading I was lined and interlined with a convincing and j sincere In more than one sense It was tas the first real message of sorrow lorrow from Jews to Jews Although nothing seemed left unsaid there was felt bet between en the speakers speaker's word an undertone undertone under under- tone tone tone-of of 01 complaint tha that the relief work as ns carried on thus far did not yield that response from the Jews of AmerIca AmerIca Amer Amer- ica which It should It was during the recital of 01 this phase of the work that the most touching Incident at the luncheon given to Mr Horwich came ame to pass Horwich was telling the story of a year old boy who walked bare- bare from to Warsaw to see I the ithe Jewish relief commissioner ner from America The boy told a pitiful tale of mother and older brother both of whom whom- perished of starvation He wa was taking care of the remaining four tour little children He wanted his father York to know what has happened hap hap- ened but would not for the world t have him know how his mother met her death The boys boy's name Horwich concluded was Abraham Lechowitzky I 1 am his lather father exclaimed a a. middIe mid mid- idle dIe aged man wavering awhile then falling Into a a. chair CONDITIONS TERRIBLE The Jewish swollen swollen of 01 hunI hunger hun bun I ger er until recently held Incompatible with medical science science for for starvation was known to produce shrinking only I and land not swelling swelling proved proved Itself terI terribly terribly ter ter- I true In Poland during the last t few tev months Horwich said In a hospital that would be condemned by our authorities as unfit Mr Sir Horwich I found tou l victims of this new disease They were doomed and imd they knew It The terrible consciousness of 01 the awful end looked out of 01 their dulled glassy eyes Without hospital walls walIs hollowed youths wandered aimlessly having been refused admission lot fot lack of space In the Warsaw home of t the e aged Horwich found a young beautiful girl of blond hair and blue blueeyes blueeyes eyes lying In pain and unable to move Inquiries brought Information that the girl Irl overstrained from tram superhuman superhuman super super- human effort to keep a family of 01 six alive was with a paralytic stroke one nl night ht on her way home from work This Horwich said he himself verified adding that for tor three days das and nights she lay on Warsaw streets unaided by medical care and anel when brought to the home of ot the aged she was beyond cure If It only I could do a little work vork was her brief plaint A more snore terrible tale talc of ot a Jewish I aby In itt Warsaw followed Its little I oot was eaten away by a rat the tho nother not heeding the cries of at the tho knowing as she did that the aby had had no food for a day and the cries to bitter hunger In where at one time here were Jews of 01 them remained and they are living In from which the roofs roots were away during prolonged bom born Horwich added that ho he found Bertha ertha Grossman with five children ill ull of 01 whom came from New York on ont oni i t visit five years ago and war having cut off oft their return they re remained renamed re- re named exposed to the mercy of 01 what their particular terrible fate had In store etore for tor them For two days the family was without food when Horwich Hor- Hor found them because sickness of oC the youngest child prevented the mother from Crom going to the free kitchen maintained by the American Jewry for a plate of soup The woman gave ave her hr husbands husband's address In New York adding In her convincing manner the threat that she will wili kill herself herselt and the children children for for she can endure It no longer Horwich accompanied by his dau daughter in went to the given address address on on the lower east side of New Now York York and and learned that the husband of ot Mrs Grossman was an inmate of the Islip Hospital for Cor the Insane In Long island Constant worry over the fate tate of ot his family had worn out his mind Mr Leon a grocery man at 48 40 East Seventh street New York City disclosed this fact to Mr Horwich AFFAIRS ONLY TOO APPARENT There was grim humor in Horwich's saying that of the two purposes he was sent abroad for namely to distribute distribute distribute dis dis- dis- dis tribute food tood and to study conditions the latter was spared him the him the state of affairs being such lIuch as required but eyes and heart and not study Mr Horwich told his story with that quiet reserve that comes to one who has looked Into the face of ot death keeping his voice with perfect control and attuned to heart to heart made his rendition most tragically effective Only once his voice swelled above the tone of 01 well wen mannered conversation when he exclaimed In a a. pitch that could be heard across the street de despite despite despite de- de spite the noise of Broadway I am j telling you ladies ladles and gentlemen I have seen people perishing of hunger They lived on n one plate of soup a day as long as the soup lasted and aed when that gave out the they died In February I saw In Warsaw little children barefooted barefooted barefooted bare bare- footed and in shreds begging in snowbound streets for a piece of 01 bread One night I went out to verify verly whether the people who have registered registered registered regis regis- were really In need of food toad I hope I shall never live through another another another an an- other night like Eke that And many did not register for they would sooner die than make their want known MEAGER RATIONS He lIe told of 01 the work in the kitchens In which only soup Is served The soup consists of 01 potatoes and barley with ten pounds of meat thrown Into the kettle for each 1000 plates plates and and this is done under what is now known to be normal conditions and often otten six pounds must suffice He lIe told of being haunted by eyes of 01 little children he saw V tormented by hunger I He showed to those present a piece of 01 bread that only the more fortunate are able to buy a piece of 01 black smudge smudge beIng being the vilest imaginable mixture of potato peelings etc lie Ue concluded his remarks for those present present present pres pres- ent could hear no more by adding the hope that American Jewry's Jewry s response will be prompt and generous en rous and that not a community throughout the cities clUes and villages of 01 the United States and Canada will vIII remain nomain Indifferent in indifferent indifferent In- In different and they will from Cram now on give as they have never given before beCore and Invoke the aid from every source imaginable The central relief committee through Its chairman Leon Kamaiky and Its directors supplements Mr plea that plea that the work of ot Jewish war relief be pursued with greater zeal and that no sacrifice can be sufficient If adequate aid is to tobe tobe tobe be meted out to suffering Israel Checks should be sent to the central central centrale cen cen- relief committees committee's treasurer Harry Fischel 31 91 Chambers street New York N. 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