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and other references to "Six Million Jews" 1900-1945
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1900 - Stephen S. Wise, New York
Times, June 11, 1900: "There are
6,000,000 living, bleeding, suffering
arguments in favor of Zionism."
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1902 - Encyclopaedia Britannica,
10th Edition, Vol. 25, 1902, page
482: "While there are in Russia and Rumania
six millions of Jews who are being systematically
degraded ..."
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1902 - Samuel W. Goldstein,
New York Times, November 27, 1902:
"PLEA FOR ZIONISM ... In answer I would
say: Does Dr. Silverman represent the
6,000,000 Jews in Russia, 300,000 in Roumania
and the 1,000,000 in Galicia?"
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1903 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), September 18th, 1903, page
6: " ... six million downtrodden
brethren."
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1904 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), February 19th, 1904, page
2: " ... where five or six million
people existed under persecution."
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1904 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), October 7th, 1904, page
1: " ... the final and definite
deliverance of the six millions of Russian,
Roumanian and Galician Jews ... transporting
five or six million people over the sea."
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1904 - Israel Zangwill, New York
Times, October 20, 1904: "The
problem does not relate to the American Jews, but
to the 6,000,000 in Russia. The Russian
Government has consented to allow the Jews to
leave,"
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1905 - New York Times, January
29th, 1905: "He declared that a free and
a happy Russia, with its 6,000,000 Jews,
would possibly mean the end of Zionism, since the
abolition of the autocracy would practically
eliminate the causes that brought Zionism into
existence."
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1905 - New York Times, November
1st, 1905: "From 1800 to 1902 he
caused 6,000,000 Jewish families to be expelled
from Russia ..."
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1906 - New York Times, March
25th, 1906: " ... the condition and
future of Russia's 6,000,000 Jews were made on
March 12 in Berlin to the annual meeting of the
Central Jewish Relief League of Germany by Dr.
Paul Nathan ... He left St. Petersburg
with the firm conviction that the Russian
Government’s studied policy for the “solution”
of the Jewish question is systematic and murderous
extermination."
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1907 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), October 18th, 1907, page
13: " ... for six million people cannot
emigrate.
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1908 - Deseret Evening News,
March 17th, 1908: " ... poverty,
starvation and disease are the afflictions which
now beset the six million Jews in that country and
Roumania."
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1908 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), August 7th, 1908: "
... when six million Russian Jews are crying
... "
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1910 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), February 4th, 1910:
"SIX MILLION BABIES SAVED BY STRAUS."
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1911 - Encyclopaedia Britannica,
11th Edition, Vol. 2, 1911, page
145: "While there remain in Russia and
Rumania over six millions of Jews who are
being systematically degraded ..."
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1911 - Max Nordeau speaking at The
1911 Zionist Congress. Hecht, Ben.
Perfidy. NY; Julian Messner. 1961. page
254: "But the same righteous Governments,
who are so nobly, industriously active to
establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by
their own confession, complete annihilation for
six million people,"
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1911 - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
(IN), June 4th, 1911, page 15:
"PRINCE, PRIEST AND PEASANT WAGE WAR AGAINST SIX
MILLION JEWS"
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1911 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), August 18th, 1911, page
14: "Very soon a fervid Russian patriotism
will reign in every Ghetto, and the melting-up of
the race begin. But this absorption of the five or
six million Jews ... "
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1911 - Max Nordeau, The Jewish
Chronicle (London), August 18th, 1911,
page 14: " ... the downfall of six
million creatures ... for no war has ever yet
destroyed six million human lives."
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1911 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), August 25th, 1911: "
... six million Jews are still groaning
under the most terrible yoke."
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1911 - Max Nordeau, The Jewish
Criterion (Pittsburgh), September 1st,
1911, page 3: " ... the downfall
of six million creatures ... for no
war has ever yet destroyed six
million human lives."
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1911 - Max Nordeau, The Reform
Advocate (Chicago), September 9th,
1911: " ... the downfall of six
million creatures ... for no war has ever
yet destroyed six million human lives."
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1911 - New York Times, October
31st, 1911: "The 6,000,000 Jews
of Russia are singled out for systematic oppression
and for persecution due to process of law."
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1912 - American Jewish Year Book
5672 (23 Sep 1911 - 11 Sep 1912),
page 308: "Russia has since 1890
adopted a deliberate plan to expel or exterminate
six millions of its people for no other reason than
that they refuse to become members of the Greek
Church, but prefer to remain Jews.
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1912 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), January 5th, 1912: "
... more than six million Jews reside in small
towns and villages there is no Sabbath question."
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1912 - Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
New York Tribune, September 11th, 1912,
page 9: "Russia is now asphyxiating
the Jews. It does not dare to offend the nations
by blood spilling, so it is slowly, but surely
grinding out the lives
of 6,000,000 Jews."
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1913 - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
(IN), October 18th, 1913, page
4: "There are six million Jews in Russia
and the government is anxious to annihilate them by
methods that provoke protests from the civilized
world."
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1914 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), July 10th, 1914, page
9: " ... where six million Jews are
suffering ... "
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1914 - New York Times, December
2nd, 1914, page 12: "APPEAL FOR
AID FOR JEWS. ... the plight of more than
6,000,000 Jews ... upon the Jewish people,
more than nine millions of whom live in the
countries at war and over six million of these in
the actual war zone in Poland, Galicia and the
whole of Russian frontier."
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1915 - New York Times, January
14th, 1915, page 3: "In the world
today there are about 13,000,000 Jews, of whom
more than 6,000,000 are in the heart of the war
zone; Jews whose lives are at stake and who today
are subjected to every manner of suffering and
sorrow ... "
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1915 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), March 19th, 1915:
"How the casting of six million people into the
deepest abyss of servitude and outlawry is to
relieve tension we cannot understand."
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1915 - The Sun (NY), June
6, 1915, section 5, page 1: "Six
million Jews, one-half of the Jewish people
throughout the world, are being persecuted,
hounded, humiliated, tortured, starved.
... six million Jews in Russia ... are being
tortured so mercilessly."
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1915 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), June 25th, 1915: "The
annihilation of the six million Jews now congregated
in the Russian domains goes on in a well defined and
systematic manner.
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1915 - Jacob de Hass, The Boston
Sunday Globe, September 26th, 1915, page
46: Indeed the only point that all warring
elements are agreed upon is that at the end of the
holocaust the Jews and Palestine will be more
closely related than at present.
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1915 - New York Tribune, October
14th, 1915: "What the Turks are doing to
Armenians is child's play compared to what Russia is
doing to six million Jews, her own subjects."
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1915 - The Mercury, December
4th, 1915: " ... six millions of
Russian and Polish Jews are to-day the most pitiable
victims of that race hatred and that race fanaticism
which have been the creed of Germany ... "
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1916 - The Jews in the Eastern War
Zone, The American Jewish Committee,
1916: " ... where six million human
beings guilty only of adherence to the Jewish faith
are compelled to live out their lives in squalor and
misery, in constant terror of massacre ...
estimated at six million or more ... of these
six million people ... a kind of prison with six
million inmates ... The persons most affected,
the six million Jews of Russia ... The Jews are
loyal and brave, and it is most inadvisable to
pursue a policy which might convert six million
subjects into enemies. ... the six million Jews
of Russia still continued ... nearly three of
the six million ..."
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1916 - Oakland Tribune (CA),
January 26th, 1916, page 1 (FRONT PAGE
ADVERT 2 DAYS RUNNING): "The President
of the United States—6,000,000 Starving,
Homeless, People—and January 27th Why should
the President, by proclamation to the people of
the nation, fix upon january 27th as the day for
contributing towards the relief of over six
million Jews located in the Far Eastern War
Zone?"
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1916 - North Devon Journal, March
9th, 1916, page 7: "In Poland, in
Southern and Western Russia, six million Jews
resided when the War broke out. They lived there
in the pale of settlement, in poverty, and were
terribly overcrowded."
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1916 - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
(IN), March 12th, 1916, page 34:
" ... six million Jews reported starving in the
warring countries."
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1916 - The Tacoma Times, February
28th, 1916: " ... there were
6,000,000 Jews in Europe absolutely without food
or resources."
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1916 - New York Times, February
28th, 1916: "Nearly six million
Jews are ruined in the greatest moral and material
misery; millions of them are refugees, dependent
upon the good will of their brethren."
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1916 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), March 3rd, 1916:
"Nearly six million Jews are ruined."
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1916 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), March 31st, 1916, page
6: "Position of the Jews in Russia. The
Jews in Russia, numbering about six million, are
denied full political and civil rights and are
economically oppressed."
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1916 - El Paso Herald, April
22nd, 1916, page 5: "Six Million Jews
Are Deprived Of Papers By Russian Censorship. ...
Six million Jews have been robbed of their
newspapers."
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1918 - Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
(IN), June 22nd, 1918, page 1:
"In the war zone of Europe there are six
million Jews who have been the war's worst
sufferers,"
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1918 - The Columbus Jewish
Chronicle, June 28th, 1918, page 1:
"Claims Palestine Has Room For Six Million ...
"It is quite possible for Palestine to find room
for five to six millions ... 800,000 hectares
will suffice to produce the food of six millions of
people,"
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1918 - The Bakersfield Californian,
July 30th, 1918, page 4: "... the
six million starving Jews in Poland, Galicia and
other stricken Eastern provinces ..."
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1918 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), September 5th, 1918: "
... Russia, where the bulk of the Jewish people
to the number of well over six million still dwell,
is a land of blood and midnight darkness."
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1918 - The Columbus Jewish
Chronicle, September 13th, 1918, page
1: "The report describes the havoc the war
has caused among the six million Jews of Russia.
Driven by the invading armies, the Jews have been
compelled to flee from their homes;"
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1918 - New York Times, October
18th, 1918: "Six million Souls Will Need
Help to Resume Normal Life When War Is Ended. ...
Committee of American Jews Lays Plans for the
Greatest Humanitarian Task in History. ...
6,000,000 Jews Need Help."
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1919 - The Bourbon News, April
1st, 1919, p.4: "... six
million Jews in Poland, Lithuania,
Galicia, Palestine, Turkey and Siberia who are
dying of starvation,"
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1919 - The Watchman and Southron,
April 5th, 1919: "Six million Jews in
Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Palestine,
Turkey and Siberia are dying of starvation. ...
These six million despairing souls are totally
dependent on American generosity for the bare
necessities of life."
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1919 - The Galveston Daily News,
April 5th, 1919, page 5: "Six
million Jews are dying of starvation."
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1919 - The Galveston Daily News,
April 6th, 1919, page 8: "The
American Jewish Relief Committee is endeavoring to
save from starvation six million Jews who are the
helpless victims of the German terror."
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1919 - El Paso Herald., April
7th, 1919: " ... to save from
starvation six million Jews who are the helpless
victims of the German Terror."
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1919 - San Antonio Express, April
8th, 1919, page 15: "The American
Jewish Relief Committee is endeavoring to save from
starvation six million Jews who are the helpless
victims of the German terror."
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1919 - The Corsicana Daily Sun,
April 9th, 1919, page 8: "THE
AMERICAN JEWISH RELIEF COMMITTEE IS ENDEAVOURING TO
SAVE FROM STARVATION SIX MILLION JEWS WHO ARE THE
HELPLESS VICTIMS OF THE GERMAN TERROR"
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1919 - San Antonio Express,
April 9th, 1919, page 12: "At no
other time in the history of the Jewish people has
the need been so great as now. Six million of our
brothers and sisters are dying of starvation. The
entire race is threatened with extinction."
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1919 - The Wellington Leader
(TX), April 11th, 1919, page 1
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"We wish to call the attention of our
people to the great drive that is on to raise funds
for the relief of the six million Jews who
are starving in the war ridden districts of the
east."
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1919 - The Corsicana, Semi-Weekly
Light, April 11th, 1919, page 5:
"THE AMERICAN JEWISH RELIEF COMMITTEE IS
ENDEAVOURING TO SAVE FROM STARVATION SIX
MILLION JEWS WHO ARE THE HELPLESS VICTIMS OF
THE GERMAN TERROR"
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1919 - The Daily Courier (PA),
August 4th, 1919, section 2, page
1: "APPEALS TO AMERICA TO ACT QUICKLY IF
LIVES OF SOME SIX MILLION JEWS ARE TO BE SAVED
... The lives of some six million people are at
stake."
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1919 - The Fulton Patriot,
September 3rd, 1919, page 4: WORLD
JEWRY AT GREATEST CRISIS Leaders in America Striving
to Save Race in Europe From Destruction. ... All
told, many million Christians and more than
6,000,000 Jews in countries other than the United
States are being directly aided by American Jewish
relief funds."
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1919 - New York Times, September
8th, 1919, page 6: "127,000
Jews Have Been Killed and 6,000,000 Are in
Peril. ... 6,000,000 souls in Ukrainia and in
Poland have received notice through action and by
word that they are going to be completely
exterminated - this fact stands before the whole
world as the paramount issue of the present day."
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1919 - The Fort Wayne News and
Sentinel, September 17th, 1919, section
2, page 1: " ... six million Jews are
dying of starvation and where vast numbers of
them—innocent victims of the ravages of war—wander
homeless, and in rags."
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1919 - Rushville Daily Republican,
September 29th, 1919, page 4: "The
thought that as I walk the streets of this properous
and happy town there are 6,000,000 people in
other lands without food, shelter or raiment is
disturbing. ... When I read, as I have read
all my life, of the persecution and slaughter of
the Jews I am not proud of my own race or my
religion. ... Six million people perishing!"
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1919 - Janesville Daily Gazette
(WI), October 4th, 1919, page 4:
" ... the Feast Day of Rosh Hashonah. It was
not a feast day for some six
million starving Jews of Europe because every
day for the past four years has been a fast day for
them. ... the five year fast that has been the
lot of the 6,000,000 Jews in Europe."
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1919 - Sheboygan Press (WI),
October 4th, 1919, page 2: " ...
the Feast Day of Rosh Hashonah. It was not a
feast day for some six million starving
Jews of Europe because every day for the past four
years has been a fast day for them. ... the five
year fast that has been the lot of
the 6,000,000 Jews in Europe."
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1919 - The Fort Wayne
Journal-Gazette (IN), October 6th, 1919,
page 3: "With six million of their
population in absolute want, they are unable alone
to render sufficient aid ... There are
to-day to be found in the ten provinces of Russia,
Poland and the fifteen provinces called the 'Pale
of Settlement' six millions of these peaceful and
law abiding people ... We do not see with our
eyes the evidences of want and degradation into
which six million Jews have been thrown suddenly
through no fault of their own."
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1919 - Indiana Weekly Messenger,
October 9th, 1919, page 1 &
4: "Life for six millions in the
shadow of death! ... Six millions mean what?
... Six million souls, old men, old
women, and little children in Poland,
Lithuania, Russia, Palestine, Glaicia,
Turkey, Syria, Roumania, Greece, and
Bulgaria are in imminent danger of starving to death
this winter. ... The responsibility of
maintaining life in these six million sufferers
rests upon every man and woman in the United States
... Helping the Jews in their extremity is not
helping the Bolsheviks," the speaker emphatically
declared."
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1919 - Schenectady Gazette,
October 16th, 1919, page 15:
"Today 6,000,000 Jews Are Facing the Darkest
Days Ever Known in the Long History of the Race."
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1919 - Titusville Herald, October
18th, 1919, page 4: "... Jewish
Relief Fund ... Contribute Today, the Last Day
and Help Save From Death Six Millions of Starving
People."
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1919 - San Francisco Chronicle,
October 19th, 1919, page 18:
"6,000,000 JEWS IN BREAD LINE, STRAUS WRITES.
More Than Third of Entire Race in World Reduced to
Despair in Europe. ... Six million Jews, out
of the 16,000,000 in the world ... "
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1919 - The Evening Tribune
Providence, October 31st, 1919, page
11: "In the midst of our campaign for the
relief of the six million Jews of Eastern Europe
... "
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1919 - The Record (Johnson City,
NY), November 1st, 1919, page 8:
"There are 6,000,000 Jews in eastern Europe
whom the war has left dependant upon America for
aid."
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1919 - Beatrice Daily Sun (NE),
November 8th, 1919, page 2: "The
territory which Mr. Hoover visited is but a part
of that in which 6,000,000 Jews, suffers of
war and war's equally horrible after-math,
stand helpless today, ... The Need: SIX
MILLION STARVING SOULS. Six million Jews in
Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Palestine,
Turkey and Siberia are dying of starvation. ...
These six million despairing souls are totally
dependent on American generosity for the bare
necessities of life. The Object: $35,000,000
for 6,000,000 LIVES"
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1919 - Lebanon Daily News (PA),
November 11th, 1919, page 2:
"DISEASE AND STARVATION IN POLAND Lieut. Wright
Tells of Half Starved People Clad in Rags BREAD OUT
OF LEAVES Says 6,000,000 Face Death This Winter
Unless Given Immediate Relief ... 6,000,000
Face Death ... Six million Jews in eastern
Europe face death during the coming winter,"
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1919 - Felix M. Warburg, New
York Times, November 12th, 1919: "The
Jews were the worst sufferers in the war. The
successive blows of contending armies have all but
broken the back of European Jewry and have reduced
to tragically unbelievable poverty, starvation and
disease about 6,000,000 souls, or half the
Jewish population of the earth."
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1919 - Gouvernur Free Press,
November 12th, 1919: "Six Million Men
and Women Are Dying... Won't You Help Them? ...
From across the sea six million men and women call
to us for help ... in six million human beings
... In this catastrophe, when six million human
beings are being whirled toward the grave by a cruel
and relentless fate ... Six million men and
women are dying ... Six million men and women
are dying ... Because of this war for Democracy
six million Jewish men and women are starving across
the seas ... Six million men and women of the
race that helped do the greatest of the world's work
are falling into the grave! ... six million
famished men and women now turn mute eyes of appeal
... "
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1919 - Chester Times (PA),
November 28th, 1919, page 15:
"There are 6,000,000 Jews in Eastern Europe
whom the war has left dependent upon us for aid."
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1919 - Ironwood News Record
(MI), December 6th, 1919, page
9: "For First Time in History of Race,
Jews Are Asking Others For Help. ... They are
doing it because six million Jews in eastern and
central Europe are actually in need of food at this
moment. ... The problem of 6,000,000
starving men, women and little children ought to
be the problem of all humanity."
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1919 - Lima News (OH),
December 24th, 1919, page 3: "Today
Six Million Jews Are Facing the Darkest Days Ever
Known In the History of the Race."
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1919 - The Toledo News-Bee,
December 27th, 1919: "Six Million Human
Beings Are Suffering the Tortures of Disease,
Hunger and Death ... American Jewish Relief
Committee"
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1920 - Van Wert Daily Bulletin
(OH), January 5, 1920, page 3:
"... Jewish relief work in Europe and Asia.
There are six million Jews in the two continents
who because of the war have been made destitute."
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1920 - Manti Messenger
(Utah), March 19, 1920: "Just
now some six million of Jews, eight hundred
thousand of them just children, are in imminent
danger of starvation in eastern Europe."
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1920 - Tulsa Daily World, April
11th, 1920, section B, page 14:
"Today 6,000,000 Jews Are Facing the Darkest
Days Ever Known in the Long History of the Race"
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1920 - Utica Herald-Dispatch,
April 20th, 1920, page 9: "Today
6,000,000 Jews Are Facing the Darkest Days Ever
Known in the Long History of the Race."
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1920 - New York Times, May 7th,
1920: " ... Jewish war sufferers in
Central and Eastern Europe where six millions face
horrifying conditions of famine, disease and
death.
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1920 - The Ogden Standard-Examiner,
August 20th, 1920: " ... there are
six million Jews in eastern and central Europe whom
the war has left dependent upon America."
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1920 - New York Tribune, August
29th, 1920: "Six million Jews were made
homeless by five years of foreign and domestic
wars."
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1921 - New York Times, July 20,
1921, page 2: "BEGS AMERICA SAVE
6,000,000 IN RUSSIA. Russia's 6,000,000
Jews are facing extermination by massacre."
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1922 - Lowell Sun (MA), March
22nd, 1922, page 14: "The Jews in the
immediate district for which the aid of the war
sufferers' campaign is to be given numbered over
six million. ... Over 300,000 orphans,
over 150,000 descrated women, over six
million wandering Jews walking, crawling in their
misery, feeding on the bark of trees and on herbs
that drow by the wayside."
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1926 - Encyclopaedia Britannica,
13th Edition, Vol. 1, 1926, page
145: "While there remain in Russia and
Rumania over six millions of Jews who are
being systematically degraded ..."
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1926 - Canadian Jewish
Review, April 9th, 1926, page 4: "
... the extreme need of 6,000,000 Jews in
Russia and Poland,"
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1931 - The Montreal Gazette,
December 28th, 1931, page 25: "SIX
MILLION JEWS FACE STARVATION. ... FEARS CRISIS
AT HAND. ... six million Jews in Eastern Europe
face starvation, and even worse, during the
coming winter."
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1932 - Symphony of Six Million,
film, April 29th, 1932: Directed by
Gregory La Cava, written by Fannie Hurst
(story), J. Walter Ruben, Bernard Schubert
(screenplay), starring Ricardo Cortez.
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1933 - New York Times, March
29, 1933: "It is now active in relief and
reconstructive work in Eastern Europe where
6,000,000 Jews are involved."
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1933 - New York Times, June
1st, 1933, page 6: "Dr. Margoshes
said he had received a letter from the poet at
Zurich a few days ago, stating that she had 'run
away from the holocaust ... '"
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1933 - The Jewish Western Bulletin,
September 21st, 1933: "At this period
of human persecution and of human destruction,
when life, especially Jewish life has ceased to
be of any value in the cruel land of bloody
Germany, when the lives of hundreds of thousands
are tortured and hang in the balance - during
this holocaust ... "
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1935 - New York Times, September
8th, 1935, page 26: "The preliminary
session of the first world conference of the
Federation of Polish Jews being attended by sixty
delegates from eighteen countries representing
6,000,000 Jews ... "
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1936 - Chaim Weizmann: Reden und
Aufsatze 1901-1936. jud. Bucherverlag Erwin
Lowe, Berlin 1937, page 272-4: "It
is no exaggeration to say that six million Jews are
sentenced to be imprisoned in this part of the
world, where they are unwanted, and for whom the
countries are divided into those, where they are
unwanted, and those, where they are not
admitted. ... It is ultimately the fate of
six million people!"
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1936 - New York Times, May
31st, 1936, page 14: "AMERICANS
APPEAL FOR JEWISH REFUGE. The petition, in
expressing the opinion of enlightened Christian
leadership in the United States, favoring a larger
Jewish immigration into Palestine, stressed the
intolerable sufferings of the millions of Jews in
"the European holocaust." ... to save these
unfortunate millions from total annihilation ...
"
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1936 - Chaim Weizmann, The
(London) Times, November 26th, 1936:
"While in Western Europe many individual Jews had
happy homes, in Eastern Europe there were
6,000,000 unwanted unfortunates who were
condemned to be penned up in places where they could
not live. ... the presence of these 6,000,000
people without a future whose condition was a
threat to Europe."
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1936 - Chaim Weizmann, The Jewish
Western Bulletin, December 11th, 1936, page
3: " ... where six million Jews are in a
position which is neither life nor death."
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1936 - New York Post, December
11th, 1936, page 19: "JEWISH RELIEF
BOARD TO HEAR LEHMAN SUDAY Gathering to consider the
crisis confronting 6,000,000 Jews in Central and
Eastern Europe,"
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1937 - Fitchburg Sentinel,
February 17th, 1937, page 1 &
11: "Stating that "6,000,000 Jews in
central Europe have neither life nor death because
of extreme persecution," Mrs Emanuel Halpern of
New York city, member of the national board of
Hadassah urged ... Today there are 6,000,000
million (sic) Jews in central Europe who
have neither life nor death."
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1937 - Jewish Western Bulletin,
December 31st, 1937: "The number six
million is often used to describe the Jewish
population of Central and Eastern Europe."
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1938 - New York Times, January
9th, 1938, page 12: "PERSECUTED JEWS
SEEN ON INCREASE. 6,000,000 VICTIMS NOTED.
... Five to six million in all are today the
victims of governmental anti-Semitism ... "
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1938 - New York Times, February
23rd, 1938, page 23: “A
depressing picture of 6,000,000 Jews in Central
Europe deprived of protection or economic
opportunities, slowly dying of starvation, all
hope gone ... Now anti-Semitism has spread to
thirteen European nations, and threatens the very
existence of millions of Jews."
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1938 - The Jewish Criterion
(Pittsburgh), April 1st, 1938, page
15: "I shall not comment upon the first
except to remind you that six million Jews in Europe
are struggling between life and death."
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1938 - The Guardian, April 4th,
1938, page 11: "Six million Jews at
this moment are trapped like rats ... "
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1938 - New York Times, May 2nd,
1938: "The rising tide of anti-Semitism in
Europe today, which has deprived more than
6,000,000 Jews and non-Aryans of a birthright
... "
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1938 - The Jews of Central Europe
by Jacob Lestshinsky, in Jewish Frontier, Vol.
5, No.6, June 1938, page 13:
"EVERY NATION is morally compelled to face the
bitter truth. This article is written not with the
intent of bewailing our plight but in order to
arrive at a factual calculation of the status of six
million Jews in Central and Eastern Europe and of
the prospects that exist in the lands of
immigration."
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1938 - Port Arthur News, June
9th, 1938, page 1: "It is estimated
that nearly six million Jews have been
driven from their homes by ruthless oppressors and
stripped not only of their property but their right
to work for a living."
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1938 - Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle, June 16th, 1938, page
18: “Judge Lewis urged American
members of the race to swing moral and financial
powers into the channels of evacuating some
6,000,000 Jews to Palestine."
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1938 - Turtle Mountain Star,
Rolla, North Dakota, October 6th,
1938: "Five or six million Jews, uprooted
by dictatorship and tossed about by economic
storms, may have to depend upon the development of
the Holy Land, under British mandate, as a
solution to their difficulties. But they face the
hostility of the Arabs living there, whose
economic and religious interests conflict with
theirs. ... protects the settlers from the
raiding Arabs. ... The Arabs Are Coming! ...
The dreaded Mohammedan raiders have been sighted by
a neighbor settler ... "
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1938 - The Times, November 22nd,
1938: "Mass emigration of Jews to
Palestine for two years and the formation of a
Jewish national assembly was advocated by Sir John
Haslam, M.P., in a message which he sent to a
public meeting at the Kingsway Hall last night held
by the New Zionist Organization. The message
stated that the problem now involved some
6,000,000 Jews."
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1939 - New York Times, January
15th, 1939, page 27:
"Rabbi Silver wanted assistance to Jewish
emigration safeguarded so that European governments
would realize that 'it is impossible to evacuate
6,000,000 Jews.'"
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1939 - The Binghampton Press,
January 18, 1939, page 8:
"IRISH PLEA — Deputy Robert Briscoe, only
Jewish member of the Irish Parliament, arrives in
New York city to begin a campaign to enlist
Americans in a plan for resettling approximately
6,000,000 Jews in Palestine."
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1939 - The Canadian Jewish
Chronicle, January 27th,
1939: "Only six million Jews
remain at the moment safe. But they will have to
carry the burden."
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1939 - Chaim Weizmann, The
Palestine Post, February 14th,
1939: "The fate of six million
people was in balance ... "
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1939 - The Jewish Criterion,
February 17th, 1939, page 20:
"The fate of six million people is in the balance.
... They supported their stand with a declaration
that Jews never needed unrestricted immigration to
Palestine as much as at present, with 6,000,000
Jewish refugees seeking a haven."
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1939 - The Evening Independent,
February 22nd, 1939, page 1:
"6,000,000 Helpless. ... there are six
million Jews in Europe today fighting desperately
against intolerance and despair. For them the
support of the united appeal is crucial."
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1939 - The Advocate, March
17, 1939. The Advocate: America's Jewish
Journal. Vols. 95-98. 1939, page
47: "If the six million Jews that
constitute the European scene were removed from the
lands where they now dwell the forces of brutality
and ruthlessness would still continue to operate."
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1939 - The Jewish Criterion,
April 7th, 1939, page 4: “Not in
Hitler's Hands, In Yours ... The Fate Of Six
Million European Jews"
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1939 - The Jewish Criterion,
April 7th, 1939, page 33: " ...
six million Jewish people who are in dire need
today."
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1939 - The Jewish Criterion,
April 14th, 1939, page 4: "Recent
events in Central Europe have brought to
6,000,000 the total number of Jews in Central and
Eastern European countries affected by anti-Semitic
activities"
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1939 - The Jewish Criterion,
April 14th, 1939, page 6: " ...
whether our 6,000,000 fellow countrymen will
live or die ... More than a million refugees,
starving, tortured, fear-dazed, have been
dragged from their homes, separated from their
families, expelled from their countries. Five
million more, await with horror the moment this
misery will strike them ... "
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1939 - Chester Times (PA),
April 20th, 1939, page 6: "Six
million Jews are the stepchildren of fate in Europe
today."
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1939 - The Jewish Criterion,
April 21st, 1939, page 15: " ...
the distress and suffering of 6,000,000 Jews in
Europe. ... HAVE YOU DONE YOUR DUTY? THE
UNITED JEWISH FUND NEEDS YOUR HELP FOR THE HELPLESS
6,000,000 IN EUROPE
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1939 - The Jewish Criterion,
April 28th, 1939, page 3: " ...
6,000,000 fellow Jews who are in distress
today."
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1939 - The Jewish Criterion, May
12th, 1939, page 7: "The year of
1939 is the year of the most critical struggle
of 6,000,000 European Jews."
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1939 - Ohio Jewish Chronicle,
June 30th, 1939, page 1: "The
crisis which Jews of Europe are facing today
envelopes far more than six millions souls."
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1939 - The Jewish Criterion,
October 13th, 1939, page 2: " ...
the coming war would be the annihilation of the six
million Jews in East and Central Europe."
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1940 - Mason City Globe Gazette
(Iowa), January 20th, 1940, page
16: "Mr. Tannenbaum stressed that
Palestine offered the only solution to the six
million Jews who are homeless, starv ing and sick
in central and eastern Europe today."
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1940 - The Southern Israelite,
May 3rd, 1940: "Almost six million Jews
find themselves on the brink of starvation and
extermination. Their only hope is the help which
the Jews of America can extend to them. The
success of the United Jewish Appeal will determine
their fate.
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1940 - Robert W. Schiff, Ohio
Jewish Chronicle, May 17th, 1940, page
1: "Over six million Jews in Central and
Eastern Europe are faced with great danger of
annihilation as the result of the sweep of war and
oppression."
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1940 - New York Times, June
25th, 1940, page 4: "Six
million Jews in Europe are doomed to destruction,
if the victory of Nazis should be final. ...
The chances for mass emigration and resettlement of
European Jewry seems to be remote, and European
Jews face the danger of physical annihilation.
Even the 4,000,000 Jews under Soviet rule,
although free from racial discrimination, are not
safe in the event of a final Nazi victory."
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1940 - Joplin News Herald
(Missouri), June 25th, 1940, page
3: "Six million Jews in Europe are
doomed to destruction."
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1940 - Ohio Jewish Chronicle,
June 28th, 1940, page 1: "The
lives of six million Jews have been uprooted by the
psychopathic, political ambitions of totalitarian
leaders."
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1940 - The Palestine Post, July
1st, 1940, page 6: "Nor must we
despair that six million Jews will forever lose
trace of their historic heritage."
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1942 - New York Times, December
13th, 1942, page 21: "Rabbi Israel
Goldstein in Temple B'nai Jeshurun, Eighty-eighth
Street, near Broadway, declared:
"Authenticated reports point to 2,000,000 Jews
who have already been slain by all manner of satanic
barbarism, and plans for the total extermination
of all Jews upon whom the Nazis can lay their
hands. The slaughter of a third of the Jewish
population in Hitler's domain and the threatened
slaughter of all is a holocaust without parallel."
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1942 - The Courier-Mail
(Brisbane), December 19th, 1942:
"GERMAN HORROR CRIMES; ALLIES PROMISE JUSTICE.
Statements issued simultaneously in London,
Washington and Moscow, told at German barbarity
and of proof of the Nazi determination to
exterminate Jews. ... Hitler's decision to
exterminate the Jews ... It is estimated that
there are between five and six million Jews in
Occupied Europe ... Nazi Slaughter House. ...
Hitler's oft-repeated intention to exterminate the
Jewish people in Europe."
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1942 - Barrier Miner
(Australia), December 23rd, 1942:
"Mr. Silverman suggested that Australia and
Canada could each absorb 6,000,000 Jews. ...
MOST ARE DOOMED ... The Jewish Congress
declares that 2,000,000 Jews have been
exterminated so far."
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1942 - The Massacre of a People:
What the Democracies Can Do, 1943. The
following article is an except from "Let My People
Go," a pamphlet written on Christmas Day, 1942,
in London: "Of the six million Jews
or so who were living at the outbreak of the war in
what is at present Nazi-occupied Europe, a high
proportion—between one and two million—have been
deliberately murdered by the Nazis and their
satellites. ... Unless something effective is
done, within a very few months these six million
Jews will all be dead,"
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1943 - American Zionist Emergency
Council (from 1970: American Zionist
Movement) - "Palestine" - Volumes 1-5
(1943): "Jewish civilian casualties will
be close to six million ... "
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1943 - "Debates: House of
Commons, official report, volume 5, Canada,
1943: "I should like to read a bit from a
pamphlet entitled "Let My People Go," written by
Victor Gollancz: Of the 6,000,000 Jews or so
who were living at the outbreak of the war in what
is at present nazi-occupied Europe, a high
proportion -say between one and two million-
have been deliberately murdered by the nazis and
their satellites. ... within a very few months
these six million Jews will all be dead ... "
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1943 - Contemporary Jewish Record,
Volume 6 1943 (Published by the American
Jewish Committee): "Suddenly, during the
summer of 1942, world public opinion was shocked
out of its lethargy by the realization that the
Nazis had decreed the complete extinction of six
million Jews and that a third of the victims had
already perished."
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1943 - The Canberra Times,
January 25th, 1943: " ... Jews are
being subjected as part of Hitler's plan to
exterminate six million Jews in occupied Europe."
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1943 - The (London) Times,
January 25th, 1943: "They note further
that the extermination already carried out is part
of the Carrying into effect of Hitler's oft-repeated
intention to exterminate the Jewish people in
Europe, which means in effect the extermination of
some 6,000,000 persons in the territories over
which Hitler's rule has been extended.
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1943 - Lowell Sun (MA),
January 26th, 1943, page 9: "Of
these six million Jews, almost a third have
already been massacred by Germans, Rumanians and
Hungarians and the most conservative of scorekeepers
estimate that before the war ends at least another
third will have been done to death."
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1943 - The Guardian, January
27th, 1943, page 4: "A PROPOSAL TO
SAVE THE JEWS ... Some six million lives
remained in imminent peril."
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1943 - The Canadian Jewish Review,
January 29th, 1943, page 1: " ...
Hitler really intended to exterminate 6,000,000
more human beings."
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1943 - Hull Daily Mail, January
30th, 1943, page 3: "Mr Gollancz
states that of the six million Jews living at the
outbreak of war in the present Nazi-dominated
areas, between one and two million have been
deliberately murdered."
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1943 - Western Morning News
(Devon UK), February 5th, 1943, page
2: "There are some who hold that Hitler's
set purpose is the extermination of the Jews in
Occupied Europe, numbering about six millions.
... We can neither accommodate six million Jews
here nor dictate the attitude of other
Governments."
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1943 - Wallace R. Deuel,
Cumberland Evening Times, March 23rd, 1943,
page 1: "The Nazis set out in the
beginning to destroy whole peoples. They expected
to obliterate from the earth not less than
6,000,000 Jews as a beginning."
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1943 - The Advertiser (Adelaide,
Australia), May 15th, 1943: " ...
the possibility of the complete wiping out of six
million Jews if something is not immediately done to
secure a harbour of refuge."
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1943 - The Canadian Jewish
Review, August 13th, 1943, page
8: "Two million Jews out of Europe's
six million have already been slaughtered by the
Nazis; most of the remainder seem doomed,
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1943 - Toledo Blade, August
27th, 1943: "3,000,000 Jews Left
In Europe - 5,300,000 Reported To Have
Perished. Europe's Jewish population has been
reduced from 8,300,000 to 3,000,000 during
the 10 years the Nazis have been in power,
says the Institute of Jewish Affairs."
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1944 - The Palestine Post,
January 23rd, 1944: "Only a
handful of Polish Jews survived the extermination.
They were now either with the partisans in the
forests or living as Crypto-Jews. The death toll
was six million, they declared."
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1944 - Rabbi Michael Dov Ber
Weissmandel, May 31st,
1944: " ... heads of
government and radio must announce what was done to
our people in the slaughter house of Belzec,
Malkinia (Treblinka), Sobibor, and
Auschwitz. Till now six times a million Jews from
Europe and Russia have been destroyed."
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1944 - The Palestine Post,
November 28th, 1944: "SIX
MILLIONS MURDERED. The Soviet State Publishing
House is preparing the publication of another
"Black Book," a documentary record of the German
massacre of approximately six million European
Jews. ... According to the Soviet editors, the
Germans killed between five and six million
Russian, Polish and Western European Jews, and
an additional half million are being murdered in
Hungary now."
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1944 - The Jewish Criterion,
December 1st, 1944: " ...
5,500,000 Jews have been killed in Germany and
German-occupied territories since the outbreak of
the war. ... Yes, the Germans murdered
close to six million Jews ... "
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1944 - Nahum Goldmann, Jewish
Western Bulletin, December 8th,
1944: " ... apart from Jewish
losses in combat service, 5,500,000 Jews have
been killed in Germany and German-occupied
tesritories [territories] since the outbreak of
the awr [war]. These figures exceed the number
anticipated even by the most pessimistic. ...
Yes, the Germans murdered close to six million
Jews ... "
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1944 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet War
News, December 22nd, 1944:
"In the regions they seized, Germans killed all
Jews, from the old folks to infants in arms. Ask
any German prisoners why his fellow countrymen
annihilated six million innocent people ... "
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1945 - New York Times, January
8th, 1945: "6,000,000 JEWS DEAD.
The Jewish population in Europe has been reduced
from 9,500,000 in 1939 to 3,500,000. Of
the 6,000,000 European Jews who have died,
5,000,000 had lived in the countries under
Hitler's occupation."