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 millions ... 800,000 hectares will suffice to produce the food of six millions 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 - 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 Corsicana Daily Sun, April 3rd, 1919, p.5 «SIX MILLION ARE STARVING ... It is estimated that there are six million Jewish women, children and aged men actually starving to death»
1919 - The Galveston Daily News, April 4th, 1919, page 3 «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 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 11th, 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 - Tipton Tribune, September 29th, 1919, page 2 «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 - The Washington Democrat, October 2nd, 1919, page 1 «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 - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, October 1st, 1919, page 4 «The thought that as I walk the streets of this prosperous 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 millions 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 millions in the shadow of death! ... Six millions 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 Millions 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 16,000,000 in the world...»
1919 - Cape Vincent Eagle, October 23rd, 1919 «...there are six million people in other lands without food, shelter or raiment is disturbing. ... When 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 of my religion»
1919 - The American Hebrew, October 31st, 1919, page 582 "The Crucifixion of Jews Must Stop! From across the sea six million men and women call to us for help ... Within them reside the illimitable possibilities for the advancement of the human race as naturally would reside 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, only the most idealistic promptings of human nature should sway the heart and move the hand. Six million men and women are dying from lack of the necessaries of life ...bigoted lust for Jewish blood. In this threatened holocaust of human life in the name of the humanity of Moses to six million famished men and women. Six million men and women are dying ... six million Jewish men and women are starring across the seas...»
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. 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 - 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 1st, 1920, page 8 «Just Another Drive, but the Lives of 6,000,000 Human Beings Wait Upon the Answer»
1920 - New York Times, May 2nd, 1920, page 1 «...six million human beings, without food, shelter, clothing or medical treatment»
1920 - New York Times, May 3rd, 1920, page 11 «Your help is needed to save the lives of six million people in Eastern and Central Europe»
1920 - New York Times, May 5th, 1920, page 9 «... to save six million men and women in Eastern Europe from extermination by hunger and disease»
1920 - New York Times, May 5th, 1920, page 19 «Six million starving, fever-stricken sufferers in war-torn Europe appeal to us»
1920 - New York Times, May 7th, 1920 «... Jewish war sufferers in Central and Eastern Europe where six millions face horrifying conditions of famine, disease and death»
1920 - Ogden Standard Examiner, August 8, 1920, page 9 «PUSH DRIVE FOR JEWISH RELIEF ... Mr. Bond declared today that there are six million jews (sic) in eastern and central Europe whom the war has left dependent upon America»
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 - 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 - 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 millionwandering Jews walking, crawling in their misery, feeding on the bark of trees and on herbs that drow by the wayside»
1926 - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 13th Edition, Vol. 1, 1926, page 145 «While there remain in Russia and Rumania over six millions 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»
1926 - New York Times, April 21st, 1926 «In Heaven's Name, Arouse the Jews of America! New York's Quota: $6,000,000 United Jewish Campaign of New York»
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 - 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 - 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 'run away from the holocaust ...»
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 holocaust ...»
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 - 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 holocaust." ...to save these unfortunate millionsfrom total annihilation...»
1936 - The Jewish Western Bulletin, June 12nd, 1936, page 3 «Great Britain has it within her power to throw open the gates of Palestine and let in the victimized and persecuted Jews escaping from the European holocaust»
1936 - The Montreal Gazette, August 8th, 1936, page 5 «Delegates of 32 Nations Represent six million Hebrews»
1936 - Chaim Weizmann, The (London) Times, November 26th, 1936 «While in Western Europe many individual Jews had happy homes, in Eastern Europe there were6,000,000 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 11th, 1936, page 19 «JEWISH RELIEF BOARD TO HEAR LEHMAN SUDAY Gathering to consider the crisis confronting6,000,000 Jews in Central and Eastern Europe»
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»