Show JEWS OF RUSSIA IN PITIABLE alake CONDITION ruined and Si starving arving reports investigator vow new york the wracking wrack g elpe experience r of a three months nl nightmare gh or e journey through a gray huddled twin dieth century inferno of misery want and helplessness was recounted by miss atlas irma may of new york city who returned on the steamship paris direct from ji a tour of the hunger re glon blon of poland galicia and bessara bla bia where hundreds of shousan thousands do of af jewish R after a ten years struggle against the impoverishment of the war are arc now crushed in a final tragedy of industrial ruin destitution and starvation as aa a result of the alie latest economic collapse jn eastern europe miss may who was abroad on a volt when the first reports of the new jewish disaster in europe readied reached this country was commissioned by cable by david A brown national chairman of the united jewish campaign for 8 overseas chest to complete the reconstruction tasks undertaken by the american jewish joint distribution committee in russia and the eastern european countries to obtain firsthand information of actual conditions and the extent of the breakdown of trade and industry affecting the jews of these countries Inci inquiry begun in january site she started on her mission early in january and in tho last three months has journeyed from city to city from village to village in till all the largo large jewish sections of poland gallela and iles bes sarabia her reports by radio and letter to mr brown based on authenticated cal information make up it a day adny by day chro chronicle nIcIo of human ruin and despair crowded with intimate detail of the suffering ering of workers broken by mouths months and years of unemployment of merchants stripped of their last resources of proud and poor aliko alike leveled to bread lines and soup souli kitchens of 0 women and children starving and freezing and waiting in piteous resignation for death more than a million jews of poland one third the entire jewish po population pula tion of the country are at present absolutely sol without any means of support and their only hope of being saved from extinction miss may declares rests on the early arria arrival at of relief funds rom america the jewish cities of Bes sarabia mlis miss may found present a repetition of the poll h y p ire of impoverishment stagnation and helpless misery due to a two years crop failure the historic jewish agricultural communities of this region are shattered by want famine and disease child mortality in Bes sarabia has reached per cent as a result of severe malnutrition and lack of ald ld and favus and hunger typhus are ominously the food allowance of jewish families in this sealon ae alon of 0 Bessa Bes sarabia rabla all available food supplies are rationed by local hunger committees Is a few ounces of corn meal kud bud a fraction of a pound of potatoes a day frenzied struggle for broad bread miss mays final experiences in poland represent a peak of the arall appall ing panorama of physical anti anil moral breakdown in which a piteous frenzied struggle for brood bread hopeless submission to squalor and disease and a panic of self belf destruction as an escape from unbearable suffering and degradation bespeak the utter titter col collapse hApse of the ancient communal structure of jewish life in poland and threaten the extinction of millions of lives of 0 men women and children in brest litovsky miss may found the poorest of the poor mostly war widows still living in the ruins of the synagogues in which they took rhel ver when they returned as refugees tes find and exiles of siege and evacuation after the razing of the city in the last withdrawal of the russian armies from the fortress utterly depleted by the destruction of the military occupations and coun ter occupations scarcity of work and food and the struggle against broken down rudimentary living conditions tile the local Is incapable of relieving the plight of these people war orphans and children born in be years of famine and internal turmoil arp are growing up as wolfs with w weakened e tied constitutions and no outlook for it a normal adjustment to orderly productive life |