=Poland—= Roubles
Warsaw 350,000
Province Warsaw 10,000
Lodz 1,500
Province Lomsha 12,000
Province Suvalki 7,000
Province Liublin 75,000
Province Radom 45,000
Province Cholm 4,400
Province Kielce 40,000
—————— 545,000
=Southwestern Province—=
(Border Places) 14,000
Radzivilov 14,000
Chtin 5,000
Volotchisk 5,000
Gorokov 1,000
Novosselitsy 500
Various small places 5,000
—————— 31,000
=Northwestern Province—=
Province Kovno 55,000
Province Vilna 30,000
Province Bialystock, Minsk, etc. 10,000
—————— 95,000
=Galicia= 112,000
=Assistance to Jews in Palestine and Syria=
(through representative in Alexandria) 10,000
=Assistance to Russian-Jewish Refugees from
Abroad= (when passing Petrograd) 1,500
=Assistance to Wounded and Recovered Soldiers
returning to the Front= 15,000
=Purchase of Matzoth for Soldiers at the Front=
(subsidy to the Rabbinical Committee) 15,000
=Subsidy to Various Educational Institutions=
(Yeshiboth, Jewish teachers, etc.) 16,000
=Organization of cheap credit to Jewish artisans,
workmen and merchants= (through Jewish Cooperative
Credit Societies) 22,000[57]
=Assistance to clerks of Jewish Cooperative
Societies= (affected by the war) 1,000
=Organization and support of sanitary and feeding
expeditions= (two expeditions) 50,000
———————
=Total= 914,000
Expenditure of the Moscow, Odessa, Kiev Committees 350,000
—————————
1,204,000[58]
According to approximate estimates within the next months the
General Jewish Relief Committee, working conjointly with the Jewish
Committees in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa, =will require the following
sums to satisfy the most urgent needs of the organizations now in
full operation and yet to be started:=
=Poland and Northwestern Provinces—= Roubles
Warsaw From 150,000 to 200,000
Province Warsaw From 15,000 to 20,000
Province Liublin From 20,000 to 25,000
Province Suvalki From 12,000 to 15,000
Province Radom From 20,000 to 25,000
Province Kielce From 20,000 to 25,000
Province Kovno From 25,000 to 30,000
Province Vilna From 10,000 to 15,000
Province Grodno From 8,000 to 10,000
Province Lomzha From 15,000 to 20,000
Province Plotzk From 6,000 to 8,000
Province Cholm From 10,000 to 12,000
=Southwestern Provinces—=
Province Volynia From 20,000 to 25,000
Province Podolia ... ...
Province Bessarabia From 40,000 to 50,000
=Galicia—=
=Outside war area= From 10,000 to 15,000
=Restoration of trade and industry
among war sufferers= From 100,000 to 150,000
=Extraordinary expenditure= From 10,000 to 15,000
———————————————————————
=Thus= =From 484,000 to 650,000=
=[Expressed in United States currency, the sum of $242,000 to $325,000
per month will be required, according to this early estimate, to
satisfy the most urgent needs of the sufferers.]=
As already pointed out, the sphere and extent of distress are
ever increasing with the progress of the war. The Jewish relief
organizations in Russia thus stand before the alarming problem: whence
to obtain adequate funds to satisfy the ever growing demand. This
problem becomes the more urgent as new forms of relief must be devised
as the time goes on. It will not do merely to feed and shelter the
stricken population. Many of the sufferers are able and willing to
work, if they but had the possibility of doing so.
The attention of the Jewish public will therefore have to be
concentrated on a new problem: to help the ruined artisans to
rehabilitate themselves, to rebuild their shattered homes and to
restore their ruined business by means of cheap credit provided for
them. The solution of this problem will, however, require infinitely
larger means, which Russian Jewry is unable to raise....