fikley, April 7, 1944
THE . JEW1S1'1 NEWS
Polish-Sponsored Schools
Charged With Anti-Semitism
Generals investigate Accusations of Discrimination in
Polish Army; Minister Stanczyk Pledges Fairness
in Liberated Poland
• LONDON (JTA)'—The reactionary,. anti-Semitic spirit
which dominated Polish schools before the war is present in
the exiled institutions where . about 25,000 children are being
educated • at the • expense of the Polish government-in-exile,
Emanuel Szerer, Jewish SOcialist deputy, charged during a
debate oti the budget of the Ministry of Education.
Szerer demanded that the gov-
ernment take steps to prevent
Polish universities f r o m ever
again becoming an instrument
of reaction and anti-Semitism. He
termed unsatisfactory Educational
Minister Kaezynski's formula for
national and cultural education
for Jews in post-war Poland and
deinanded the establishment, af-
ter ' the war, Of government-fi-
nanced schools where Yiddish
would be the language of instruc-
tion.
To insure equal edudation op-
portunities for Jewish students,
Szerer urged that a subcommittee
on Jewish schools be appointed
by the government to assist in
advising it on drafting plans for
all educational activities.
Generals Investigate
Anti-Semitism in Army
LONDON (JPS).—Three Polish
generals have been appointed to
conduct a n investigation a f
charges of -anti-Semitism in the
Polish army submitted to the Pol-
ish government-in-exile by Dr.
I. Schwartzbart and Dr. E.
Szerer, the Jewish representatives
on its National Council. T h e
charges were substantiated by
50 affidavits from Jewish sol-
diers serving with the Polish
forces in Britain and Palestine.
'Pledges No Anti-Semitism
In Post-War Poland
LONDON (By Wireless). (Re-
ligious News Service) — Fears
that anti-Semitism may find ex-
pression in post-war Poland are
discounted by Jan Stanczyk,
ister of social welfare in the Pol-
ish government-in-exile, in a spe-
cial message to the Jewish Bul- -
_letin published here.
"I know that among world
Jewry," Mr. Stanczyk wrote,
"fear exists that anti-Semitism
may find expression in liberated
Poland. I am profoundly con-
vinced that it will not.
"Anti-Semitism in Poland had
features -quite different from
those of the German type,. No
one treated the racial theory ser-
iously in Poland. Today, the Pol-
ish nation and the Jewish popu-
lation are together suffering ter-
rible oppression and persecution.
They are united as never before
by common sufferings, a common
desire for liberation, and a coxp-
mon hatred of the enemy.
"Only an agreed cooperation
of Poles and Jews can settle the
Jewish question to mutual satis-
faction. In the future Poland,
there will be neither intellectual
nor economic anti-Semitism."
Charges of Cruelty • in Iran
Denied by Jan Stanczyk
In a delayed cAble from Mos-
cow, dated March 12, syndicated
by the NOrth Arnerican News-
paper Alliance, James Aldridge
charges that Polish forces in Iran
have abused many privileges and
makes the following accusation:
"When more than 300 Jewish
children had been fixed up to go
to Palestine, the Polish elite, who
were, very anti-Semitic, put pres-
sure on Iraqi authorities not to
allow the Jewish children to pass
through Iraq to get to their des-
tination. The Poles were repulsed
but they so delayed the Iraqi
decision that the Jewish children
had. - to go by a long difficult
route from Basra to India.
"At Karachi they had to get
a boat to Palestine; The trip- took
three months that way; through .
Iraq it yould have taken three
weeks."
Mr. Aldridge writes that he has
"met some- Poles, civilians and
military* officials, who are .dis-
gusted with the whole show.
There is little they can do about
it, however. Any opposition is
draStically quashed."
A denial by Jan Stanczyk,
Minister of Social Welfare of the
Polish government-in-exile, of
the report, by correspondent
James, Aldridge of mistreatment
of Jewish refUgees Teheran
by Polish . officials . was released.
by the Polish Telegraphic Agen-
cy; news bureau of the Polish
government-in-exile. The story of.
conditions in the 'refugee . camps
in Teheran was sent from Mos:-
Page 'Farfy-fi ■ ie 1r
cow and syndicated by the North that 300 Jewish children were
American Newspaper Alliance.
granted visas as an exception
Denying the establishment of while adult Jews and many other
a ghetto for Jews in the Polish children, through no fault of the
camp for refugees, the Minister Polish government, had to make
stated, "for religious reasons a the long trip via Basra."
number of Jews holding Paies-
The story of Jewish children
tinian visas were • quartered in in Russia trying_to get into Polish
barracks separately from the
Polish camp at their own request. orphan r asylums and having to
All the camps were run on regu- wear crosses to gain adniisSion is
lations issued by the Ministry of contained in a book "Tzror MiCh 7
Public Welfare, whose delegate tavim" (A Wreath of Letters),
and also • many officials were published in: Palestine. The let-
chosen among labor and trade ters, written by the. children and
union leaders, who would never by youth leaders who made the
separate refugees according to
their social status. No discrimina-
tion is the first principle of policy
as regards the care of refugees.
"Finally the story about the
Poles keeping Jewish children in
Iran• repeated representations by
the British and Arnerican . author-
ities to the Iraq governMent to
obtain transit visas for Palestine
for the Jewish children did not
avail. It was at (former Premier
Wadislaw Sikorski's personal re-
quest to the Iranian regent, while
Sikorski was visiting in Baghdad,
,
trip from Teheran to 'Palestine
with then, were reprinted,
part, in FurroWs, monthly maga-
zine of Habonim, Labor Zionist
Youth, in the United States.
Jewish DoCtOrs Make
Important Discovery
MOSCOW .(JPS)—A group of
Jewish• doctors at t h e Gorky
military hospital were reported
to have• discovered a -method for
converting the back , of 1 i-me
trees into soft splints, important
in treatment of wounds.
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