Standing up to his armpits in a flooded cellar with his son, after witnessing the murder of his wife and six children by the bolsheviks of Kienehof, in wessarabia(?), is the experience of Dr. Joseph Goldman, who was a rabbi there. He is in Greensboro for a few days.
The bolsheviks knocked out every other tooth in his head before he escaped with his son, fleeing to Vladivostok, thence to Japan, finally coming to Seattle, Wash.
That experience has made Dr. Goldman a bitter hater of the bolsheviks and he has delivered lectures on them throughout the United States, from California to New York. He came here from Asheville and will speak in High Point at the First Baptist church Sunday night.
The massacre of the family of the rabbi occurred just after the fall of Kerensky. Hundreds of Jews were slain in his home town, he said. He escaped to the cellar with his surviving son, Jerome Goldman, after his family was killed before his eyes. The bolsheviki filled the cellar with water and thought they had drowned the two. For three days they were forced to stand there without food. After reaching the United States when America entered the war the son enlisted in the United States army, serving in the 91st division. He was killed at Belleau Wood. Dr. Goldman refused the insurance on his son’s life, and it went toward erecting a fine monument to the young man in St. Louis. Dr. Goldman had a picture of the monument with is son’s name on it, and the fact that he was killed in Belleau Wood inscribed on it.
“Do you regret the death of your son?”
“O, no, I do not. What better cause could a man give his life for? No man can say my son was a Grover Bergdoll. Those who give their lives in such a cause can never die.”
Dr. Goldman was born and lived in Russia 55 years. He intends to fight the bolsheviks from the lecture platform, he says, and finally to go to Palestine and make his home. One of his lectures is “The Inner Life of the Bolsheviki.” Another is “Palestine, It’s Present, Past and Future.” He asks no money. He is the author of 16 books, he said.
The lowest scum of the earth is the way Dr. Goldman labels the bolsheviki. Ignorance, filth and rottenness characterize them, he said. He said that he had seem them take a child and wring its neck like a chicken is killed. He is the sole survivor of 75 generations of people.
From the Greensboro News, as reprinted on the front page of the Mount Airy News, Aug. 25, 1921
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