| Real name | ||
|---|---|---|
| 15. | Bogdanoff | Josse |
| 16. | Goryeff | Goldmann |
| 17. | Zwezdin | Wanstein |
| 18. | Lieber | Goldman |
| 19. | Ganezky | Fürstenberg |
| 20. | Roshal | Solomon” |
Dr. Simons also testified that when the Bolsheviki came into power the Yiddish language at once became predominant in official proclamations and posters. He says:
“I might mention this, that when the Bolsheviki came into power, all over Petrograd we at once had a predominance of Yiddish proclamations, big posters, and everything in Yiddish. It became very evident that now that was to be one of the great languages of Russia; and the real Russians, of course, did not take very kindly to it.”
On page 135 Dr. Simons states:
“Trotzky is a Jew. His real name is Leon Bronstein.”10
Testimony of Mr. William Chapin Huntington
Mr. Huntington was Commercial Attaché of the United States Embassy at Petrograd from June, 1916, until September, 1918. He was in Petrograd at the outbreak of the Bolshevist coup d’état in November, 1917, and remained there until February, 1918, when he was sent on