Received an email tonight from Nigel Colley, Gareth Jones' great nephew. His family just translated a few letters ethnic Germans in the Ukraine wrote in 1933. Nigel posted them on this website earlier today. Jones was given the letters by the German Consul in Danzig. Unlike most letters during the Holodomor, these were not censored.Excerpt from a letter written by a 33 year old women with 3 children and a dying husband:
We have been eating grass for the past two weeks. I even went to a little hill where a dead horse lay, and ate some of it. My husband is ill, his body is swollen, my children are swollen.Dorothy Rabinowitz critiqued Treason by relating how Phillip Loeb was driven to suicide when he could not get a job.The doctor claims that the people will be dropping like flies, due to the hot weather. Forty people have already been buried every day in a neighbouring Russian village. A German village lays claim to fifteen dead per day. Whole families lay unburied on the paths of the steppes for weeks. No one cares. Cats and dogs are eaten.
An underground trade organisation has been formed in the nearby town of Armawir, where people are slaughtered and are turned into sausages and cutlets, to be sold for food.
Some of our neighbours in our village have desecrated graves by digging up bodies and pulling out gold teeth with pliers, to sell in Torgsin for products. The Bible says: The Ashes should lay in peace! Even the dead have no peace.
Why do we suffer so much? Winter is over. Very heavy restrictions were made in December, and this resulted in us becoming helpless and destitute. December, January, February, for three whole months we were tortured, and now we have to starve to death if no one helps us.
Bread was taken from us, grain, everything that we call corn; different types of seeds, vegetables, everything was collected and taken away by the State. All the potatoes, meat, eggs and dairy products.
We have nothing! Oh Lord, where can we find help, who will pity us? Oh dear uncle, please find help for us unhappy people. Oh, pity us. Oh brothers and sisters, may the Lord put this letter into your hands. Please put your hands together to save us from starvation. Oh, help, help, please, please! Soon I will no longer exist, soon the flood of death will wash over me, I will die soon, oh Word (of the Lord)! Soon I will be carried away! Oh uncle, please, please send us alms, even just a little piece. Oh, if only I had some corn bread, I would always be thankful and would praise the Lord for ever. In eternity we will take your hands and thank you... more
Loeb was fired from his TV show because no one wanted to watch a Soviet sympathizer when American troops were being killed in Korea. He was paid $85,000 (over half a million in current dollars)for not working. He killed himself a few years later when he could not pay a tax bill of around $1,000.
Where is the sense of proportion in all this? Those McCarthy called supported a system which murdered the woman who wrote the letter above. They wanted that brutal system to come to America. Yet they are now the victims and McCarthy, who didn't want a Holodomor in America, is the villain.
I don't get it.