1915 April 04 Atlanta Constitution 52 Pages Georgia

1915 April 04 Atlanta Constitution 52 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1915

PDF PAGE 46, COLUMN 4 JEWISH WAR VICTIMS AIDED BY LEO FRANK “Knows What It Is to Suffer Unjustly,” He Says in Letter. With the words, “Knowing what it is to suffer unjustly and having a deep sense of sympathy for our co-religionists who are innocent sufferers,” Leo M. Frank has sent from the jail a check for $5 for 500 Jewish Relief Stamps for war victims. Frank’s letter was written recently to Harry Fischel, Treasurer of the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews suffering in the war zone. Inclosed with the check was the following letter: “I feel that when these stamps were sent me, the party sending them was ignorant of the conditions surrounding me at present, as you doubtless know I am, and have been for the past two years, most unjustly incarcerated in prison. I presume you have read of my Case and are more or less familiar with it.” “Knowing what it is to suffer unjustly, and having a deep sense of sympathy for our co-religionists who are innocent sufferers because of the European war, it gives me especial pleasure to be of Assistance to them and to collect among my friends who called to see me the money for these stamps.” The $5 had been collected in a day from the many vi