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Kamenetz-Podolsk.... 200 Vasilkov, April 7th-15th.. 110
■GoLOVATSHEVSK, August 4th.. 200 Ladyshenka, May 14th.... 100
Uman, July 29th...... 150 Novomirkov, May 7th.... 105
Pmluky, July 4th.... 150 Meshigorjk...... 104
All the wounds inflicted on the Jews were severe, and nearly always resulted in death. Very often the bandits were not satisfied with merely wounding but came back, until those whom they had -left aUve, though severely wounded, were killed. This is the reason why the proportion of iilled to wounded is larger here than in real war. Violations of women in June and July increased in number tremendously, and on many occasions gangs of bandits broke into houses mainly for that purpose, though, of course, no house was left without being ransacked.
The bare recital of the numbers of the victims in no way shows the misery and affliction of the Jewish population, and the position of those who survived seems to exceed any imaginable depth of horrors. There are hundreds of thousands who have looked into the eyes of death and who have lived through all the horror of expecting death at any moment. These people, deprived of every possible means of subsistence, physically and morally ruined are faced with the problem of finding an asylum, of saving themselves and their children from starvation, from exposure during the coming winter, from infectious diseases and demoralization.
We quote below a report of our commission on the Jews in Ladyshenka where an ordinary, simple pogrom took place with only eighty-three victims, and without the usual bestial accompaniments of other pogroms:
" On July 9th a peasant brought to the Jewish hospital in Uman the last two Jews from Ladyshenka (before the war Ladyshenka counted a Jewish population of 1,600). These were two yoimg Jewish girls, frightfully beaten and bruised, one with her nose cut off and the other with her arms broken. They are both in Kiev now and both sulier from venereal disease....
" More than 1,000 Jews from Ladyshenka are now- in Golovatshevsk. Tho\- arc all naked, all bruised, and all, wlipther well or ill, live in the Synagogues, in the stables or the streets. Nobody knows what their lips — always flrmly pressed together — could tell us and how these people live their day. I'unerals take place very often in Golovatshevsk, and special collections are often made to provide the garments of the dead "
Pictures of other places are even more depressing, more sad. Sometimes the places of refuge where those who escaped death froni the pogroms — expecting to find protection — become areas of new pogroms — ^with new hundreds of victims — and the mass of misery is driven again in all directions.
It is impossible to calculate all the damage caused to the Jewish population of the Ukraine. If counted at the present values it would amount to billions. The vast majority of townships, and even many towns, are entirely cleared of Jewish property. In some of the places like Boguslav (April 5th), Volodarka (July 11th), Kutosovo (July 26th), Voshtshagovka (June 9th), Snamenka (May 3rd), Beloshitza (July 11th), the Jewish houses were converted into heaps of smoking rubbish. But where there were no fires the Jewish houses look like ruins; windows are smashed, frames are torn out, and everything inside broken or carried away.
DlBECTOB OF THE INFORMATION AND STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT.