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From: hugh lichtenwald <>
Subject: [GV] Die Welt-Post, October 25, 1923 (Prischib, Molotschna area)
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:06:59 -0800 (PST)


Hallo List:
  The following article is translated to the best of my ability.
 
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Page 8, Die Welt-Post, Thursday, October 25, 1923
 
56,154 PFUND OF FOOD
 
Distributed to the Prischib-Molotschna Colonies in June 1923 by the National Lutheran Council
 
  From newly received distribution lists, reports and letter of thanks from Russia, it is evident that the National Lutheran Council made large distributions of Food and Clothing in the Colonies. In the Prischib region, for example, there were distributed to about 4,000 Lutherans and other denominations in 15 Colonies: Prischib, Hoffental, Alt Nassau, Weinau, Durlach, Gruental, Andresburg, Neu Montal, Tiefenbrunn, Alt Montal, Halbstadt, Muntau, Tokmak and Waldheim: Flour, 25,308 Pfund (Pfd.); Groats, 16,896 Pfd.; Sugar, 3,438 Pfd.; Cocoa, 762 Pfd.; Lard, 2,346 Pfd.; Milk, 5,904 Pfd. In addition various bundles of clothing items and footwear were distributed.
  The devastation suffered by this once flowering region through which the river named for the fertility of area, "Molotschnaja" (Milk River), is clearly apparent from the distribution lists. For example, the Colony of Prischib which counted 1,000 residents before the wars, today has only 732 souls, and of these 156 are widows and orphans (21.3%). 31 Widows without children, 16 each with 1, 11 each with 2, 5 each with 3, 4 each with 4, 1 with 5 and 2 each with 6 children. The situation is the same in the other Colonies. Given these conditions, there can be no doubt about the urgent need to continue aid in the Colonies, this should be clear to everyone.
                                                   With friendly greetings,
 
                                                   Chas. Gloeckler
                                                   National Lutheran Council
                                                   137 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.
 
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Hugh Lichtenwald, from the farm in Monetta, SC
VC, Wiesenmueller
 

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