popular that as you moved through the streets in Petrograd in July and August and September and the beginning of October, openly they would tell you this, ‘This is not a Russian Government; this a German and Hebrew Government.’ And then others would come out and say, ‘And very soon there is going to be a big pogrom.’ As a result of that, hundreds of Bolshevik officials who happened to be Jews were sending their wives and their children out of Petrograd and Moscow, afraid that the pogrom would really come.” (p. 132).
On page 142 of his testimony Dr. Simons introduced a list of names, which he said was widely circulated in Petrograd in August, 1917, giving the real names and the Jewish names of the most important Bolshevist leaders. This list is as follows:
| Real name | ||
|---|---|---|
| “1. | Chernoff | Von Gutmann |
| 2. | Trotzky | Bronstein |
| 3. | Martoff | Zederbaum |
| 4. | Kamkoff | Katz |
| 5. | Meshkoff | Goldenberg |
| 6. | Zagorsky | Krochmal |
| 7. | Suchanoff | Gimmer |
| 8. | Dan | Gurvitch |
| 9. | Parvuss | Geldfand |
| 10. | Kradek | Sabelson |
| 11. | Zinovyeff | Apfelbaum |
| 12. | Stekloff | Nachamkes |
| 13. | Larin | Lurye |
| 14. | Ryazanoff | Goldenbach |