Over 200 time the 6 million number has been mentioned.
1900
1900 Stephen S. Wise, New York Times, June 11, 1900: "There are 6,000,000 living,
bleeding, suffering arguments in favor of Zionism."
1902
1902 Stephen S. Wise, New York Times, June 11, 1900: "There are 6,000,000 living,
bleeding, suffering arguments in favor of Zionism."
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
1902 Samuel W. Goldstein, New York Times, November 27, "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?"
1903
1903 The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), September 18th, 1903, page 6: " six million
downtrodden brethren."
1904
1904 The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), February 19th, 1904, page 2: " where five or
six million people existed under persecution."
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."
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,"
1905
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."
1905 New York Times, November 1st, 1905: "From 1800 to 1902 he caused 6,000,000
Jewish families to be expelled from Russia."
1906
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."
1907
1907 The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), October 18th, 1907, page 13: " for six million
people cannot emigrate.
1908
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."
1908 - The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), August 7th, 1908: " when six million Russian
Jews are crying 1910 - The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), February 4th, 1910: six
million BABIES SAVED BY STRAUS."
1911
1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Vol. 2, 1911, page 145: "While there
remain in Russia and Rumania over six million s of Jews who are being systematically
degraded "
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,"
1911 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN), June 4th, 1911, page 15: "PRINCE, PRIEST
AND PEASANT WAGE WAR AGAINST six million JEWS"
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 "
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."
1911 The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), August 25th, 1911: " six million Jews are still
groaning under the most terrible yoke."
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."
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."
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." 1912
1912
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.
1912 - The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), January 5th, 1912: " more than six million
Jews reside in small towns and villages there is no Sabbath question."
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."
1913
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."
1914
1914 The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), July 10th, 1914, page 9: " where six million
Jews are suffering "
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."
1915
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 "
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."
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." 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.
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 holocaustt the Jews and Palestine will be more closely related than at present.
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."
1915 - The Mercury, December 4th, 1915: " six million s 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 "
1916
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 "
1916 Oakland Tribune (CA), January 26th, 1916, page 1 (FRONT PAGE ADVERT 2
DAYS RUNNING): "The President of the United Statesa€” 6,000,000 Starving,
Homeless, People a€” 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?"
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."
1916 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN), March 12th, 1916, page 34: " six million Jews
reported starving in the warring countries."
1916 The Tacoma Times, February 28th, 1916: " there were 6,000,000 Jews in Europe
absolutely without food or resources."
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."
1916 The Jewish Criterion (Pittsburgh), March 3rd, 1916: "Nearly six million Jews are
ruined."
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."
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."
1918
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,"
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
million s 800,000 hectares will suffice to produce the food of six million s of people,"
1918 The Bakersfield Californian, July 30th, 1918, page 4: " the six million starving
Jews in Poland, Galicia and other stricken Eastern provinces "
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."
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;"
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."
1919
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,"
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."
1919 The Galveston Daily News, April 5th, 1919, page 5: " six million Jews are dying of
starvation."
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."
1919 El Paso Herald., April 7th, 1919: " to save from starvation six million Jews who
are the helpless victims of the German Terror."
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."
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"
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."
1919 The Wellington Leader (TX), April 11th, 1919, page 1 "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. "
1919 The Corsicana, Semi- Weekly Light, April 1 1th, 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"
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."
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."
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."
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."
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!"
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."
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."
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 million s 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."
1919 Indiana Weekly Messenger, October 9th, 1919, page 1 & 4: "Life for six million s
in the shadow of death! six million s 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."
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."
1919 Titusville Herald, October 18th, 1919, page 4: " Jewish Relief Fund Contribute
Today, the Last Day and Help Save From Death six million s of Starving People."
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 1 6,000,000 in the world "
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 "
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."
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.
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. The Object: $35,000,000 for
6,000,000 LIVES"
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,"
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."
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 "
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."
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."
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."
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"
1920
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."
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."
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"
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."
1920 New York Times, May 7th, 1920: " Jewish war sufferers in Central and Eastern
Europe where six million s face horrifying conditions of famine, disease and death.
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."
1920 New York Tribune, August 29th, 1920: " six million Jews were made homeless by
five years of foreign and domestic wars."
1921
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."
1922
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 draw by the wayside."
1926
1926 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 13th Edition, Vol. 1, 1926, page 145: "While there
remain in Russia and Rumania over six million s of Jews who are being systematically
degraded "
1926 Canadian Jewish Review, April 9th, 1926, page 4: " the extreme need of
6,000,000 Jews in Russia and Poland,"
1931
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."
1932
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.
1933
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."
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 a€ “run away from
the holocaustt "a€~
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 holocaustt "
1935
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 "
1936
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!"
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 holocaustt." to save
these unfortunate millions from total annihilation "
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."
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." 1936 - New
York Post, December 1 1th, 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,"
1937
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."
1937 Jewish Western Bulletin, December 31st, 1937: "The number six million is often
used to describe the Jewish population of Central and Eastern Europe."
1938
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 "
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."
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."
1938 The Guardian, April 4th, 1938, page 11: " six million Jews at this moment are
trapped like rats " 1938 - New York Times, May 2nd, 1938: "The rising tide of
antiSemitism in Europe today, which has deprived more than 6,000,000 Jews and non-
Aryans of a birthright "
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."
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."
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."
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 "
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."
1939
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.
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."
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."
1939 Chaim Weizmann, The Palestine Post, February 14th, 1939: "The fate of six
million people was in balance "
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."
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."
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."
1939 The Jewish Criterion, April 7th, 1939, page 4: "Not in Hitler's Hands, In Yours
The Fate Of six million European Jews" 1939 - The Jewish Criterion, April 7th, 1939,
page 33: " six million Jewish people who are in dire need today."
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"
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 "
1939 Chester Times (PA), April 20th, 1939, page 6: " six million Jews are the
stepchildren of fate in Europe today."
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
1939 The Jewish Criterion, April 28th, 1939, page 3: " 6,000,000 fellow Jews who are
in distress today." 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."
1939 Ohio Jewish Chronicle, June 30th, 1939, page 1: "The crisis which Jews of Europe
are facing today envelopes far more than six million s souls." 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."
1940
1940 Mason City Globe Gazette (lowa), 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."
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.
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."
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."
1940 Joplin News Herald (Missouri), June 25th, 1940, page 3: " six million Jews in
Europe are doomed to destruction."
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."
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."
1942
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 holocaustt without parallel."
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." 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."
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 a€” 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,"
1943
1943 American Zionist Emergency Council (from 1970: American Zionist Movement) -
Palestine - Volumes 1-5 (1943): "Jewish civilian casualties will be close to six million "
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 "
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."
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." 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.
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 wil have been done to death."
1943 The Guardian, January 27th, 1943, page 4: "A PROPOSAL TO SAVE THE JEWS
Some six million lives remained in imminent peril."
1943 The Canadian Jewish Review, January 29th, 1943, page 1: " Hitler really intended
to exterminate 6,000,000 more human beings."
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."
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 million s. We can neither accommodate six million Jews
here nor dictate the attitude of other Governments."
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."
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."
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,
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."
1944
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."
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."
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."
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 "
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
Germanoccupied 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 "
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 "
1945
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."
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