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The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop! |
Here is an artical about 6 million Jews being murdered in the holocaust.
The interesting thing about this artical is when it was written, it appeared
in The American Hebrew on the 31st October 1919
(Note that the words "6 million" and "holocaust" appear through out the
piece)
The American Hebrew
October, 31 1919
THE CRUCIFIXION OF JEWS MUST STOP!
By Martin H. Glynn
(Former Governor of the State of N.Y.)
From across the sea six million men and women call to us for help, and eight
hundred thousand little children cry for bread.
These children, these men and women are our fellow-members of the human
family, with the same claim on life as we, the same susceptibility to the
winter's cold, the same propensity to death before the fangs of hunger.
Within them reside the illimitable possibilities for the advancement of the
human race as naturally would reside in six million human beings. We may not
be their keepers but we ought to be their helpers.
In the face of death, in the throes of starvation there is no place for
mental distinctions of creed, no place for physical differentiations of
race. In this catastrophe, when six million human beings are being whirled
toward the grave by a cruel and relentless fate, only the most idealistic
promptings of human nature should sway the heart and move the hand.
Six million men and women are dying from lack of the necessaries of life;
eight hundred thousand children cry for bread. And this fate is upon them
through no fault of their own, through no transgression of the laws of God
or man; but through the awful tyranny of war and a bigoted lust for Jewish
blood.
In this threatened holocaust of human life, forgotten are the niceties of
philosophical distinction, forgotten are the differences of historical
interpretation; and the determination to help the helpless, to shelter the
homeless, to clothe the naked and to feed the hungry becomes a religion at
whose altar men of every race can worship and women of every creed can
kneel. In this calamity the temporalities of man's fashionings fall away
before the eternal verities of life, and we awaken to the fact that from the
hands of one God we all come and before the tribunal of one God we all must
stand on the day of final reckoning. And when that reckoning comes mere
profession of lips will not weigh a pennyweight; but deeds, mere intangible
deeds, deeds that dry the tear of sorrow and allay the pain of anguish,
deeds that with the spirit of the Good Samaritan pour oil and wine in wounds
and find sustenance and shelter for the suffering and the stricken, will
outweigh all the stars in the heavens, all the waters in the seas, all the
rocks and metals in all the celestian globes that revolve in the firmament
around us.
Race is a matter of accident; creed, partly a matter of inheritance, partly
a matter of environment, partly one's method of ratiocination; but our
physical wants and corporeal needs are implanted in all of us by the hand of
God, and the man or woman who can, and will not, hear the cry of the
starving; who can, and will not, take heed of the wail of the dying; who
can, and will not, stretch forth a helping hand to those who sink beneath
the waves of adversity is an assassin of nature's finest instincts, a
traitor to the cause of the human family and an abjurer of the natural law
written upon the tablets of every human heart by the finger of God himself.
And so in the spirit that turned the poor widow's votive offering of copper
into silver, and the silver into gold when placed upon God's altar, the
people of this country are called upon to sanctify their money by giving
$35,000,000 in the name of the humanity of Moses to six million famished men
and women.
Six million men and women are dying -- eight hundred thousand little
children are crying for bread.
And why?
Because of a war to lay Autocracy in the dust and give Democracy the sceptre
of the Just.
And in that war for democracy 200,000 Jewish lads from the United States
fought beneath the Stars and Stripes. In the 77th Division alone there were
14,000 of them, and in Argonne Forest this division captured 54 German guns.
This shows that at Argonne the Jewish boys from the United States fought for
democracy as Joshua fought against the Amalekites on the plains of Abraham.
In an address on the so-called "Lost Battalion," led by Colonel Whittlesey
of Pittsfield, Major-General Alexander shows the fighting stuff these Jewish
boys were made of. In some way or another Whittlesey's command was
surrounded. They were short of rations. They tried to get word back to the
rear telling of their plight. They tried and they tried, but their men never
got through. Paralysis and stupefaction and despair were in the air. And
when the hour was darkest and all seemed lost, a soldier lad stepped
forward, and said to Col. Whittlesey: "I will try to get through." He tried,
he was wounded, he had to creep and crawl, but he got through. To-day he
wears the Distinguished Service Cross and his name is
Abraham Krotoshansky.
Because of this war for Democracy six million Jewsh men and women are
starving across the seas; eight hundred thousand Jewish babies are crying
for bread.
(Continued from page 582)
In the name of Abraham Krotoshinsky who saved the "Lost Battalion," in the
name of the one hundred and ninety-nine thousand and nine hundred and
ninety-nine other Jewish boys who fought for Democracy beneath the Stars and
Stripes won't you give copper, or silver, or gold, to keep life in the heart
of these men and these women; to keep blood in the bodies of these babies?
The Jew Has Helped Everybody But The Jew.
In the world war the Jew has helped everybody but the Jew. "Over there" he
helped in camp, in council and in conflict. "Over here" he helped the Red
Cross, the Y.M.C.A., the Knights of Columbus, the Masons, the Salvation Army
and everybody else. So now is the time for everybody to help the Jew, and
God knows now is the time he needs it.
From out of the gloom of this war every other race, save one or two, has
snatched a ray of sunshine. But amid the encircling gloom there is no light
for the Jew "to lead thou me on." The war is over for everyone, but the Jew.
The knife is still at his throat and an unreasoning and unreasonable
century-old lust for Jewish blood opens his veins. The Jew in Roumania,
Poland and Ukrainia is being made the scapegoat of the war. Since the
armistice has been signed thousands of Jews in Ukrainia has been offered up
as living sacrifices to diabolical greed and fanatical passion -- their
throats cut, their bodies rended limb from limb by assassin bands and rabid
soldiery. In the city of Proskunoff one day a few weeks ago the dawn saw the
door of every house wherein lived a Jew marked as a shambles for slaughter.
For four days, from sunrise to sunset, fanatics plied the dagger like demons
from hell, stopping only to teat with hands adrip with the blood of Jewish
victims. They killed the men; they were less merciful to women. These they
violated, and then they killed. From a purpose to a fury, from a fury to a
habit ran this killing of the Jews, until within four days the streets of
Proskunoff ran red with blood like gutters of a slaughter house, until its
homes became a morgue for thousands of slaughtered human deings whose gaping
wounds cried out for vengeance and whose eyes had turned to stone at the
horrors they had seen. As Hon. Simon W. Rosendale, aptly paraphrasing Bobby
Burns' thought, in his speech not long ago, said it is the age-old story of
"man's inhumanity to man that makes countless thousands mourn." For as it
has been at Proskunoff, so has it been in a hundred other places. The bloody
tale hath repetition ad nauseum. It is the same tear-stained story -- the
same old stain upon the escutcheon of humanity. Verily, Byron was right when
he wrote:
Tribes of the wandering feet and weary breast
Whither shall ye flee to be at rest?
The wild dove hath her nest, the fox his cave,
Mankind their countries, Israel but the grave.
But Israel is entitled to a place in the sun, and the crucifixion of Jews
must stop. We repeat the war is over for everybody, but the Jew. Like Isaac
the knife is at his throat, but unlike Isaac no power seems able to stop the
steel from thirsting for his blood. But some power the world must raise up
to prevent this decimation of a deserving race. For the peace of the world a
League of Nations let us have by all means; but for the Humanity of the
World, to give justice to the Jew and other oppressed peoples on earth, let
us have a Truce of God! -- Albany Times Union.
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| User: "Terry" |
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| Title: Re: The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop! |
09 Nov 2005 04:18:28 PM |
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Another artical from the New York Times
(please note the date)
New York Times August 10, 1917
GERMANS LET JEWS DIE
Women and Children in Warsaw Starving to Death
Through the intelligence Department of the Mayor's Committee on National
Defense, the Provisional Zionist Committee last night made public a letter
describing the conditions among Jews in Warsaw under German rule. The name
of the writer of the letter is not divulged for obvious reasons. The
veracity and authenticity of the letter is vouched for by the Zionist
Committee, of which Dr. Stephen S. Wise is Chairman, and Supreme Court
Justice Louis D. Brandeis honorary chairman. The letter says, in part:
"Death from starvation is a real fact. It is witnessed here all over, in
every street, at every step, in every house. Jewish mothers, mothers of
mercy, feel happy to see their nursing babies die; at least they are through
with their suffering.
"Our wealthiest people cut off their daughters' hair and sell it to be able
to buy the indispensible things like bread for their dying children. Four
and five-year old children have become so weak that they must be carried in
the arms like babies. Fathers should they return from the battlefield will
meet of their five and six children they kissed good-by when they left for
the war two or probably one or more.
"How long yet will this suffering last? From where will our help come? A
committee has been sent to Switzerland to maintain our soup kitchens, but I
doubt the success of the mission. Help us, help us. Awaken, America. This is
our only hope. Should America not aid us we will be lost."
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| User: "Terry" |
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| Title: Re: The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop! |
09 Nov 2005 04:28:05 PM |
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Here is another artical from the New York Times
(again note the date and the 6 million figure is used)
New York Times May 2, 1920
JEWS ASK PUBLIC TO AID WAR VICTIMS
Non-Sectarian Appeal For $7,500,000 Starts Today With Sermons In All
Churches
Poland's Woe Appalling
Campaign to be pressed by 10,000 active workers in the five boroughs
A famished child upon the auction block, a mother in the foreground pleading
for aid, death with outstretched arms lurking near and the legend "Shall
Death Be the Highest Bidder?"
Such is the pictorial representation of the needs of stricken peoples in the
war-devastated zones of Central and Eastern Europe which will confront New
Yorkers everywhere today. Back of that representation stands an organization
designed to take advatage of every channel to press home to the people of
this city the need for contributing toward the $7,500,000 to be raised here
this week by the Greater New York Appeal for Jewish War Sufferers.
This fund is but a tithe of that which must be subscribed in the entire
country if disaster to whole peoples is to be averted. The world nature of
the calamity, which has overtaken men, women and children, deprived not only
of life's bare necessities but of all means of rehabilitating themselves
without aid from the outside, has led leading Jews of New York and the
nation to turn to the public, irrespective of creed, for help.
Heretofore the Jews themselves have contributed many many millions which
have been expended by the Joint Distribution Committee through relief
agencies of all countries and without regard to the religious beliefs of
those in need. This time the burden is too gigantic to be borne by Jews
alone.
Millions Racked by War
A pen picture of actual conditions, typical of those in several countries,
has been sent to the Campaign Committee by Dr. Boris H. Bogen of this city,
now in Warsaw as head of the First Relief Unit, sent abroad by the Joint
Distribution Committee. Dr. Bogen writes:
"Hunger, cold rags, desolation, disease, death - Six million human beings
without food, shelter, clothing or medical treatment in what now are but the
wastes of once fair lands ravaged by long years of war or blighted by its
consequences.
"That, in a few words is the actual situation in all those countries that
constituted what was known during the conflict as the Eastern theatre of the
war.
'Words cannot adequately convey nor can any picture be drawn which can bring
home to comfortable, affluent, happy New Yorkers surrounded by their family
and friends, riding in their automobiles, enjoying every luxury, the utter,
abject, hopeless misery confronting the population of these lands, a
population almost equal to that of New York City itself. If you would try to
visualize, to realize the situation, place yourself at the corner of Fifth
Avenue and Forty-second Street.
"The once teeming avenue is all but deserted. Gone are the gay equipages,
their bejeweled occupants and liveried attendants. No longer are the
sidewalks filled with a surging crowd of gayly dressed men and women. The
street is all but still. Laughter and lively chatter are heard no more.
"Instead old men lean for support against the buildings. Mothers, with dying
babes tugging vainly at their breasts sit along the curbs. The flower of
what was once the young manhood and womanhood of the city is not in the
picture, for they, by the thousands and tens of thousands, lie stricken in
the overcroded hospitals, laid low by the breath of a pestilence.
Too Weak to Cry for Bread
"Little children with wasted frames and swollen bodies, cling to their
mothers' rags, too weak to even cry for the bread that is not to be had.
"A bitter wind sweeps through the avenue from the north. A man - his tatters
cannot be called clothes - his face blue and pinched, looks at you with
unseeing eyes. You do not at first recognize him. It then dawns on you that
you have seen that face before. It is the face of a friend, a man who but a
few short months before was well-to-do, a banker, as prosperous, well fed
and well dressed as you are now. He reaches out his arms toward you and
falls at your feet. You stoop down to lift him up. He is dead!-Hunger did
it.
"The scene is not exaggerated. Not overdrawn. It has its exact counter part
in hundreds of cities, towns, and villages throughout Central and Eastern
Europe at this very moment. The call comes from one human being to another,
from those who have less than nothing to those who have much. It is the call
of humanity.
"At no time during the war, in any land, not either in Belgium or Northern
France, was their a situation more critical, a need more great, a demand for
sacrifice and help more insistent than now comes from Eastern and Central
Europe. Both the present and future existence of an entire people are at
stake."
The campaign is receiving the active cooperation and support of archbishop
Patrick J. Hayes of the Roman Catholic Diocese, Bishop Charles S. Burch of
Episcopal diocese, Bishop Luther B. Wilson, President of the Board of
Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Miss Evangeline Booth,
Commander of the Salvation Army.
Members of the executive committee include Cleveland H. Dodge, Treasurer of
the Committee for the Relief in the Near East: President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia University. George Gordon Battla, Otto T. Bannard, John
C. Agar, the Rev. Dr. David J. Hurrell, Robert Grier Cooke, Paul G. Cravath,
Francis D. Gallatin, Charles H. Sabin, President of the Guaranty Trust
Company: former Attorney General George W. Wickersham, Judge Joseph F.
Mulqueen, Judge William H. Wadhams and Alfred E. Marling.
The appeal is to be brought home forcibly to the people of New York in many
ways. Today is Church Sunday, and there will be special sermons in churches
of all denominations. The Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman has prepared a model
sermon for Protestant churches. Vicar General Joseph F. Mooney has written a
message to the Roman Catholic churches, and Dr. Nathan Stern, rabbi of the
West End Synagogue, prepared an appeal to be read to the Jewish
congregations.
Children in the public schools, through the cooperation of the Board of
Education, are to hear the story of the sufferings of the children in other
lands. In theaters, moving-picture houses, clubs, hotels and restaurants. In
short, wherever people are gathered together, the conditions they are asked
to alleviate will be made clear to them.
It is estimated that not fewer than 10,000 active workers have been enlisted
in the cause in the five boroughs. The organization for the campaign has
been divided into these parts: The organization of the trades and
industries, so that not a single business or profession in the city has been
overlooked: the women's division, embracing 3,000 women workers under the
leadership of Mrs. I. Unterberg. Mrs. Samuel C. Lamport and Mrs. S.S.
Prince, which has divided the city into districts: the women organized the
schools and churches and will make a direct appeal to the homes and to the
neighborhood store-keepers; the third organization is is that of the
boroughs, each borough, Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond,
having a borough organization.
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| User: "Terry" |
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| Title: Re: The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop! |
09 Nov 2005 04:12:11 PM |
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Here is another artical this time from the New York Times in 1919
(note the date and the 6 million figure is used)
New York Times November, 12, 1919
THE SAD PLIGHT OF JEWS
Felix M. Warburg says that they were the worst sufferers in war
Felix M. Warburg, Chairman of the Join Distribution Committee of American
Funds for Jewish War Sufferers, who returned several days ago from a trip to
Europe for that organization, made public yesterday some of his findings.
"The successive blows of contending armies have all but broken the back of
European Jewry," he said, "and have reduced to tragically unbelievable
poverty, starvation and disease about 6,000,000 souls, or half the Jewish
population of the earth.
"The Jewish people throughout Eastern Europe, by sheer accident of
geography, have suffered more from the war than any other element of the
population. The potential vitality and the capacity for self-help that
remains to these people after the last five years is amazing to me."
"The people are deeply moved by the help given them by America, Mr. Warburg
said, but it would be fatal to lessen the emergency aid now while millions
are in tragic need. The $30,000,000 spent by the committee, he said, has fed
and clothed more than a million children and has renewed the hope of five
million parents and elders.
"For more than four years," he said, "The war on the Eastern front was
fought largely in the congested centres of Jewish population. A straight
north and south line from Riga, on the Baltic, to Salonika, on the Aegean
Sea, will touch every important battle area of the Eastern war zone and
every centre of Jewish population. After the cataclysm of the last few years
it is too much to expect this Jewry to become self-sustaining in a short
twelve-month."
Mr. Warburg is concerned over the program soon to be started for the
discontinuance of of emergency relief. This plan, he said, calls for the
formation of a $10,000,000 reconstruction corporation.
"This organization," he said, "would afford facilities for constructive aid
to Jews abroad in the way of loans and credit at nominal interest rates. The
value of this sort of assistance as a substitute for pure charity is
apparent."
"Other relief projects recommended by Mr. Warburg include the establishment
of an express company to forward money and packages from Jews in this
country to relatives and friends abroad; the distribution of $120,000 worth
of fuel in sections of Poland where destitution is greatest; the purchase of
$300,000 worth of cloth in the bolt whereby unemployed workmen of Poland may
get new material, and a plan to reunite those Jewish families that have
relatives in the United States and those who have become separated abroad.
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