A telegram has been received here from Vienna through a neutral country appealing for the sending of $200,000 for emigration of several hundred Viennese Jews, many of them holders of American visas, who face the alternatives of emigration or removal to the Lublin “Jewish reservation.”
Their fear of removal to Lublin was sharpened by a campaign against Jews In the “reservation” opened by German newspapers which charged that the Jews already shipped there were conducting themselves “in a provocative manner.” Leading this campaign was the Silesian newspaper Schlesische Zeitung, which declared that “the German Army must wipe out the Jews with an iron broom, also from the Lublin district, while other Nazi papers stressed that the Jews in Lublin must be destroyed by disease and cold during the Winter by preventing warm clothing from reaching them.
The question of how to reach these Jews, as well as those in other parts of Nazi Poland, with winter clothing and warm bedding is at present occupying the attention of Jewish and non-sectarian relief organizations in Europe, including the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the American Red Cross.
In a cable to the J.D.C. in New York, Morris C. Troper, the organization’s European director, emphasized that vast shipments of winter clothing and blankets from America would be necessary, declaring “the matter is urgent and cannot be delayed. He added that it was impossible to obtain large supplies in Europe and warned that “winter will bring untold suffering to tens of thousands unless preparations are now made to have adequate supplies actually on the spot for distribution.”
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