The Fascists did NOT Kill enough Jews!

Poor Jews in former Soviet Union face intense poverty and life threatening Anti-Semitism. Officials openly declare: "The Fascists did NOT Kill enough Jews!" Help us Help them!

Spring 2001
The fascists made a bad work. They did not kill enough Jews. If I had a gun in my possession, I would kill them all!"
- Director, Crimea Passport Office (Ovir),

     We in the democratic West assumed that when democracy" came to the provinces of the former Soviet Union, that, voila," the character of those nations had changed. But most have not changed.
     I just visited Kiev in the Ukraine in December. After all that I saw I have an urgency to share with you a report that we received earlier from our co-laborers there. This was their shocking report of a trip that they made to Crimea.
     They wrote,
     The situation in Crimea is much worse than we believed. Our team was there and they were all shocked. During two days time, the team gathered 56 Jewish families, together 198 people, who all want to immigrate to Israel. Most cannot even afford the paperwork and are desperate. We did not advertise in any way that we were coming. As soon as we arrived, everybody knew.
     A director of the Crimea passport office said it all. We are talking now about saving lives. The Jewish people in Crimea need our help. Time is running out for them. A more detailed report is on the way."
    While both Christian and Jewish organizations are raising funds to sponsor plane and ship passage for Jews wanting to emigrate from the lands of the north, what if they cant afford to leave the country?
     There are many Jews who are so poor that they cannot afford the relatively exorbitant fees for passports and exit permits to come to Israel. Some dont even have shoes, nor can they afford the transportation to the transit points to get their plane or ship. Those providing this passage do not pay for the paperwork, transportation to transit points or lodging until they leave. Many who are desperate to go to Israel are being left behind as the situation grows worse each day.

     His name is Joseph Moisejevich Lerman. He worked for 40 years as the main engineer in Chernobyl and was exposed to radiation. He was evacuated to the village of Armjansk in the Crimea, with his wife Fannie and two daughters, Zinoida and Ludmila. They live in an apartment with no heat, described as a dump and rotten, the water is leaking on the walls and during the frost, there is ice on the walls inside."
     Joseph receives a pension of 54 Hrivne ($22/month) with an extra payment of 3.70 Hrivne ($1.50) for his work at Chernobyl.
     Joseph is desperate and told our team, I am praying. Please help us to leave this place, no matter by car, by wagon, but quickly."
     His wife, Fannie, cries, We urge you, please deliver us. We are rotting to death. We are buried alive. And even our young daughter is dying together with us. Please help."
     Their other daughter, Zinoida, immigrated to Israel in March, 1997. She is weak because of Chernobyl and has no possibility of helping her parents and handicapped sister get to Israel.

The Lermans recently were able to arrive in Israel with our help. However there many others like them who are trapped. Their fate may be doomed, if they dont leave soon. The attitude of the director of the passport office says it all.

Together we have an unprecedented opportunity to rise to the occasion at this hour of need. Thousands of such cases need our help!

What can we do?

     For $300 per person, we can provide land transportation to a departure point for travel to Israel, housing while waiting for paperwork to be processed, payment for the passport and exit visa. Together with Bridges for Peace Outreach Center in Jerusalem we will also prepare to greet them in Israel with Welcome Gifts.
     For a family like the Lermans who earn $23.50 per month from Josephs pension, the chances of getting to Israel are nil without our help. It simply costs too much for them to leave.
     Prayerfully consider what you can do - what we can do together. We are cooperating with Bridges for Peace and the Ezra teams in the Ukraine, in Siberia and other locations and other ministry teams who are at risk as they are helping Jews who are too poor to leave the CIS without extra assistance. They have lists of names of those waiting and needing assistance to leave.
     Our teams in Kiev, Siberia and other locations serving as fishers will get them out, and together with Bridges for Peace we will help them upon their arrival in Israel. Will you help, too?
     Please visit http://www.sovietjews.com and help a poor Jewish emigrant get to Israel who could not otherwise afford to come home to Zion.
     Come out of her, My people! Run for your lives! ... You who have escaped the sword, leave and do not linger! Remember the Lord in a distant land, and think on Jerusalem" (Jer. 51:45,50).
     For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land" (Eze. 36:24).
     Therefore behold, days are coming," declares the lord, when it will no longer be said, As the Lord lives, who bought up the sons of Israel out of the Land of Egypt, but, As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them. For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers. Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen declares the Lord, and they will fish for them...." Jeremiah 16:14-16"
     'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: See, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up My banner to the people; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders" (Isa. 49:22).
     God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help them" (Hebrews 6:10).

    Having just returned from Kiev in the Ukraine where I saw the extreme poverty of many of the Jewish families I know that I must do all that I can to help these people return to the Land of Israel.

     Please will you help us help them. Together we can make a difference.

Shalom from Jerusalem,

Barry R. Denison
Executive Director
Trinity Outreach International
http://www.sovietjews.com