(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Documents throwing light on one of the most stirring tragedies in the annals of American Jewish relief work in the Ukraine were handed over yesterday by Mr. Merezhin, secretary of the Comzet, to Mr. James N. Rosenberg, vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee who with Dr. Bernard Kahn is on a visit here.
The diaries of Dr. Israel Friedlaender, American Jewish scholar and relief worker, professor of Exigesis at the Jewish Theological Seminary and Commissioner of the J. D. C. to the Ukraine, active with Overseas Unit No. I in Poland, and Dr. Bernard Cantor, young American rabbi, who were killed on their relief mission in a Ukrainian village on July 5, 1920, were handed over to Mr. Rosenberg.
It was at the time stated by many people who were present when the murder was committed that the shots were fired by persons wearing the uniform of the Bolshevik army.
The last entry in Professor Friedlaender’s diary bears the date of Tuesday, June 29, 1920, and says that he left Proskurow on Friday, June 25 and arrived in Kamenetz on June 26.
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