Notes:
The New York Times proceeds to barrage the public with tales of woe out of Europe to garner American support despite Americans not willing to go to a second war. They press hard. And even after those 6 million are under war and tyranny for over 20 years, there are still 6 million that need your help!
British Mandate for Palestine: The draft of the Mandate was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922. An illegal legal document declaring the home of the Palestinians to be turned over to Jews.
January, 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes head of Germany.
Originally Posted by Chaim Weizmann: Reden und Aufsatze 1901-1936. jud. Bucherverlag Erwin Lowe, Berlin 1937; Declared the 6 million number to be symbolic of the Jewish destiny.
| Date | Source | Headline | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 11th, 1920 | Tulsa Daily World [Section B Page 14] | "Today 6,000,000 Jews Are Facing the Darkest Days Ever Known in the Long History of the Race" | |
| February 23, 1920 | The Atlanta Constitution | $50,000 Raised In City To Save Suffering Jews | "He called upon the Atlanta Jews to arise to the occasion, and to contribute to the emergency fund in order that the lives of the six millions of jewish people may be saved. Mr. Rusland briefly pictured the conditions that prevail in the European countries in which the Jews are oppressed" Dr. Marx (Rabbi) 6,000,000 Jews who live in eastern Europe and Palestine and reviewed the persecution" |
| May 1st, 1920 | New York Times [Page 8] | "Just Another Drive, but the Lives of 6,000,000 Human Beings Wait Upon the Answer." | |
| May 2nd, 1920 | New York Times [page 1] | "six million human beings, without food, shelter, clothing or medical treatment." | |
| May 3rd, 1920 | New York Times [Page 11] | "Your help is needed to save the lives of six million people in Eastern and Central Europe." | |
| May 5th, 1920 | New York Times [Page 9] | "[...] to save six million men and women in Eastern Europe from extermination by hunger and disease." | |
| May 5th, 1920 | New York Times [Page 19] | "Six million starving, fever-stricken sufferers in war-torn Europe appeal to us." | |
| May 7, 1920 | New York Times [Page 11] | Jewish War Aid Gets $100,000 Gift | "The fund for jewish war sufferers in Central and Eastern Europe, where six millions face horrifying conditions" |
| July 20, 1921 [Page 2] | New York Times | "Begs America Save 6,000,000 In Russia. Massacre Threatens All Jews as Soviet Power Wanes, Declares Kreinin, Coming Here for Aid. [Russia's 6,000,000 Jews are facing extermination by massacre -> in all parts of Russia and the Ukraine]" | |
| August 20th, 1920 | The Ogden Standard-Examiner | "[...] there are six million Jews in eastern and central Europe whom the war has left dependent upon America." | |
| August 29th, 1920 | New York Tribune | "Six million Jews were made homeless by five years of foreign and domestic wars." (all six million) | |
| July 20, 1921 | New York Times [Page 2] | BEGS AMERICA SAVE 6,000,000 IN RUSSIA. | "Russia's 6,000,000 Jews are facing extermination by massacre." |
| April 21st, 1926 | New York Times | "In Heaven's Name, Arouse the Jews of America!" New York's Quota: $6,000,000 United Jewish Campaign of New York" | |
| December 29, 1931 [Page 6] | Montreal Gazette | "Six Million Jews Face Starvation" | "Six million Jews in Eastern Europe face starvation" |
| March 29, 1933 | New York Times | "It is now active in relief and reconstructive work in Eastern Europe where 6,000,000 Jews are involved." | |
| June 1st, 1933 | New York Times [Page 6] | "Dr. Margoshes said he had received a letter from the poet at Zurich a few days ago, statig that she had "run away from the holocaust" [...]" |
August 25, 1933: "Nazi" Germany in agreement with the Zionist Federation of Germany and the Anglo-Palestine Bank sign the Haavara Agreement. This helps jews emigrate to Palestine. Counters "Final Solution" arguments. September 21st, 1933|The Jewish Western Bulletin|"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 [...]" September 8th, 1935|New York Times [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 [...]" February 25th, 1935|Chicago American [Page 1]|SIX MILLION PERISH IN SOVIET FAMINE|...where six million children, women and men have died of starvation... 1936|Chaim Weizmann|"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." 1953|Israeli Government Year Book|"Dr. [Chaim] Weizmann spoke to Peel Commission sent out by Britain in 1936 of six million Jews in European countries who had neither hope nor future save in the land of Israel." May 31, 1936 [Page 14]|New York Times|Americans Appeal For Jewish Refuge|"Pro-Palestine Federation Asks Britain to Take a Strong Course in Holy Land; The petition, in expressing the opinion of the 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"" "the salvation of Israel and restoration of its ancient patrimony. 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" June 12th, 1936|The Jewish Western Bulletin [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." August 8th, 1936|The Montreal Gazette [Page 5]|"Delegates of 32 Nations Represent six million Hebrews." (and no one else including the citizens of those nations who didn't want war thus had to be pushed into it) November 26th, 1936|The (London) Times|"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." December 11th, 1936|The Jewish Western Bulletin [Page 3]|"[...] where six million Jews are in a position which is neither life nor death."