commandant in the course of two weeks, in the shape of produce worth about 5,000 rubles for the Committee on relief to the victims of the pogrom and counter-revolution. But that, of course, is only a drop in the bucket. Then, the commandant of Trostianetz promised me to release also a large quantity of sugar, of which he has a large amount, inasmuch as there is a sugar factory there. The commandant requisitioned that sugar, but did not share it with the Committee. And so yesterday representatives from the town of Trostianetz again arrived and informed me that sugar was not being furnished, nor other produce either. These were only the words of the Comrade Commandant, who has not fulfilled his promises. I beg that you adopt a resolution for the appropriation of medicines for the town of Trostianetz, whose population has suffered from this pogrom. I herewith append a demand for medicines with the signature and seal of a physician of the town of Trostianetz. I beg that attention be paid to the town of Obodovka, canton of Bratzlav, which is under the military command of the town of Trostianetz. Early in June representatives of the town of Obodovka came to me and asked me to communicate the following to the People's Commissariat of Social Security: first, that the pogrom-wave reached them also when it spread over the whole canton of Bratzlav, and that of the Jewish inhabitants 270 families were completely annihilated; 161 men were left alive. The members of these families entreat immediate relief, since the same horrors have come to them as to many other unhappy towns. I beg that you adopt a resolution regarding an advance of money to the town of Obodovka, canton of Bratzlav.
S. KULIKOVA.
CITY OF BALTA ( F PODOLIA)
I. Report to the United Central Commission for Relief to the Victims of the Counter-Revolution and of Jewish Pogroms. From Z. Fitermann, Member of the City Executive Committee of Balta.
The city of Balta, government of Podolia, in the course of two months and more, beginning with February 2 and ending with April 6, suffered an unintermittent pogrom and terror, perpetrated by Petlurist detachments (the "Yanivsky Zachil" under the leadership of Ataman Koschuk, and others). During this time engagements between the bolshevist guerrilla detach-
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ment of Comrade Diachishkin and Ukrainian units took place in the city. And every time, when the Gaidamaks conquered, the matter ended with a Jewish pogrom. There were three such pogroms, with a total number of victims of about 100, exclusively Jews; about 35 houses were set on fire with inflammatory bombs, about 120 women were violated (among them an old woman of 70; one girl died on the next day from the horrors of her experience, and many are even yet suffering from venereal diseases). Almost all the Jewish houses and apartments were stripped bare, and the shops destroyed, every single one. Even the very poorest Jewish districts of the city were not spared the pogrom, nor the very smallest shops. The Gaidamaks carried away from the city the whole printing shop of Sh. Dorf, and the large machine shop of Kh. Schatz and I. Usakovsky. Most of all to suffer were the laboring and poorest part of the Jewish population, as is usual. Among the victims there were only three or four representatives of the Jewish bourgeoisie; the rest are representatives of the intellectuals, the poor, and the laborers, namely the elements which in the moment of danger would not or could not (for material reasons) leave the town.
Z. FlTERMANN.
Kiev, May 10, 1919.
At a session of the Central Commission for aid to the victims of the counter-revolution, held May 9, 1919, this report was heard, and it was voted, henceforth, until the presentation of an estimate, to appropriate 1,000,000 rubles for the Balta Commission for aid to the victims of the counter-revolution.
The Secretary (Signature).
II. From the (newspaper) "Com. Fon." No. 62, of Aug.
The city experienced two pogroms. The first was organized by Petlurist bands, which systematically kept attacking the city in the course of eight weeks. The second pogrom occurred early in April, just before the entrance of the Soviet forces. In the last pogrom 120 people were killed. Ninety per cent of the slain belonged to the Jewish poor classes. The city was entirely devastated. Two hundred Jewish families suffered severely from the pogrom.
UKRAINE BRAILOV ( F PODOLIA)
Testimony of I. Hammermann, Taken Down by Maislish, July 29
The town of Brailov is eight versts from Zhmerinka. About three weeks ago the Taraschan regiment entered the town. Twenty-five people were killed. After a few days the town was occupied by Petlurist forces. Twenty-eight were killed (mostly young men). The whole place was devastated.
KALINOVKA ( F PODOLIA) Pogroms of March 9 and July 14, 1919