Tiraspol Tomonof Letter, 3 of 4 (See notes.)

death at the hands of a Petlura pogrom band in 1919 while on vacation in Tumanov. He had combined a teaching-students-for-the-summer with a visit to that town. It was the time of a lot of turmoil and civil war following the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty in Russia. Thousands of Jews were massacred all over the Ukraine by anti Bolshevik armies. The Bolsheviks (communists) finally did clean them all out but not these armies (white armies) murdered out thousands upon thousands of Jews. In Tumanov the band that killed Froike (that was the boy's name and I well remember him) also killed about 75 other Jews there by machine gun fire.