Postcard map of East Prussia and Polish Russia with a message and postmark, Vienna, August 20, 1915. From a series that asks, 'Do you know the high times?'

Kennen Sie schon 'Die grosse Zeit'

die neue vom Verlag Ullstein & Co. herausgegebene illustrierte Kriegsgeschichte? Wenn nicht, lassen Sie sich die bereits erschienenen Hefte von Ihren Buchhändler vorlegen. Das Werk gibt in zeitlicher Reihenfolge eine packende reich illustrierte Darstellung der Kriegsereignisse; jedes Heft ist erzeln erhältlich und kostet 30 Pfennig.



Do you know 'The big time'

new from publisher Ullstein & Co., a published illustrated history of the war? If not, you can acquire the already published issues from your bookseller. In chronological order, the book gives a gripping and richly illustrated presentation of the war; each issue is available and costs 30 cents.



Reverse:

B.Z. Kriegskarte

Verlag der B.Z. am Mittag, Berlin



B.Z. War Card

Publisher of B.Z. at Noon, Berlin



Message and postmark, Vienna, August 20, 1915

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Tuesday, March 30, 1915

"Tuesday, March 30, 1915.

Ever since the war began the Jews of Poland and Lithuania have been passing through the most terrible trials. In August they were compelled to leave the frontier zone en masse and given no time to remove any of their belongings. After a short respite the expulsions have begun again in the most summary, hasty, and brutal manner. All the Israelite inhabitants of Grodno, Lomza, Plotsk, Kutno, Lodz, Pietrokov, Kielce, Radom, and Lublin have successively been driven into the interior in the direction of Podolia and Volhynia. Everywhere the process of departure has been marked by scenes of violence and pillage under the complacent eye of the authorities. Hundreds of thousands of these poor people have been seen wandering over the snows, driven like cattle by platoons of Cossacks, abandoned in the greatest distress at the stations, camping in the open round the towns, and dying of hunger, weariness, and cold. And to fortify their courage, these pitiful multitudes have everywhere encountered the same feelings of hatred and scorn, the same suspicion of espionage and treason. In its long and grievous history Israel has never known more tragic migrations. And yet there are 240,000 Jewish soldiers fighting, and fighting well, in the ranks of the Russian army!"

Quotation Context

Entry from the memoirs of Maurice Paléologue, the French Ambassador in Russia, for Tuesday, March 30, 1915. Passover had begun the previous evening. Elsewhere in his memoirs, the Ambassador documents his discussions with the Foreign Minister and other Russian officials on improving the Empire's treatment of its Jewish citizens.

Source

An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. I by Maurice Paléologue, page 315, publisher: George H. Doran Company, publication date: 1925

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