Telegram from the Jewish National Council, Vienna, to Chief Rabbi Hertz of the British Empire, apprising him of pogroms throughout Poland.

(POLAND)

30th November

(London)

1918

The unexpected collapse of the three partitioning powers (Austria, Germany and Russia) at the end of World War One, brought about the rebirth of sovereign Poland. Unfortunately, the Jews of Poland bore the brunt of the historic event, as government-inspired pogroms broke out across the newly independent nation. Most infamous was the 1918 pogrom in Lvov (formerly Lemberg). Our telegram, dispatched from Vienna, alerts England's Chief Rabbi Hertz to the severity of the situation and to the duplicity of the Polish government. See EJ, Vol. XIII, col. 738