A medal of honor was presented to Sholom Schwartzbard, French War Veteran and killer of the notorious pogrom leader Petlura, at a dinner in his honor given by the Jewish War Veterans of America.
The dinner which was held Wednesday evening was also a form of greeting for the other French Jewish War Veterans who are here to return the visit of the American Legion to France. About one hundred persons attended the dinner which was held at Trotzky’s Restaurant.
GLAD TO GREET COMRADES
In his speech Mr. Schwartzbard expressed his joy at being able to greet in person his American comrades. “We came here as strangers,” he said. “We come from France and even from its colonies. There are among us Moroccan, Tunisian, and even Algerian Jews. When we discovered each other on shipboard, we wondered how we could reach our American Jewish comrades. You can imagine our sur surprise and joy when we were met on the ship by a delegation of American veterans in uniform.”
Mr. Schwartzbard then told of some of the scenes of horror he had witnessed in the Ukraine during the pogroms and said that the position of Jewry was still tragic, that persecution was still rampant and only the form had changed.
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