Government-Sanctioned Anti- Semitism in Poland Increase s
said in Tel Aviv that the attack
on him was inspired by articles
he had published on the current
unrest in Poland. Klugmann is a
contributor to the Polish-language
newspaper Noniniv Kurier, pub-
lished in Tel Aviv.
The Polish news agency "PAP"
announced that those expelled
from the Communist Party were
Tadeusz Hirschfeld, deputy direc-
tor of a building materials plant
in Lodz: Monisz Izralewicz, of the
Lublin sugar plant . and Andrzej
Przytyk, an official of the National
Council in Lublin. Warsaw news-
papers said Prof. Kazimierz Laski
resigned as chairman of the War-
saw branch of the Polish Economic-
Society and Seweryn S'tryjer was
fired as deputy director of the
state tourism departthent.
In an article reminiscent of Sta-
lin's "doctors' plot" in the early
Post-World War II years, the arm-
ed forces' newspaper accused
a leading Jewish doctor of
having "terrorized" Gomulka and
Spychalski when they were im-
prisoned in the early 1950's. The
paper said that Dr. Anatol Fejgin,
director of a medical clinic cater-
ing to top government officials,
"terrorized many respected party
members and social activists,
among them Gomulka and Spychal-
ski." Dr. Fejgin, then a depart-
mental director in the ministry of
security, was sentenced to three
years in prison for abuse of author-
ity after Gomulka's return to
power in 1956. The same news-
paper denounced Stanislaw Wygod-
zki, a Jewish poet who emigrated
to Israel a year ago.
Meanwhile Maj. Gen. Mieczys-
lav Moczar, who is believed to -
be the instigator of the renewed
anti-Semitic movement in Pol-
and, constantly propagates his
policies of anti-Zionism which
have assumed a violent anti-
Jewishness and is pressing for
further purges. Most of those
removed from public offices and
from university positions are
Jews. Among his latest victims
who were selected for attacks
were Roman Zambrowski, a Po-
litboro member until 1963; Stan-
islaw Radkiewicz, security minis-
ter during the Stalin regime and
Jakob Berman, who was a power
in the secret police in the Stalin
period.
Among the selectees for attacks
this week was Elzbieta Czyzewska,
the wife of David Halberstam, a
former New York Times corres-
pondent in Poland. Miss Czyzew-
ska, a noted actress who returned
to New York from Warsaw in Janu-
ary, was assailed on TV and in
the press on the charge that her
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husband was reporting "anti-
Polish" stories.
Jewish contacts with the Polish
Jewish community whatever is
left of it—are nil. There are no
correspondents of Jewish news
agencies or newspapers in Poland
and the Joint Distribution Conimit-
tee was ousted from Poland, des-
pite its immense philanthropic
services there. Information on what
is transpiring in Poland is gather-
ed from non-Jewish sources and
from newspapers published in
Poland that reach London.
In a revealing article in The
Nation under the title "Poland:
Anti-Semitism as Usual," Samuel
L. Sharp, professor of international
law at American University in
Washington, D.C., made these in-
teresting revelations of the extent
of the anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic
campaign and the purges of noted
personalities who are Jews:
"In the struggle for power,
Gomulka occupies the 'centrist'
position and it is therefore not
surprising to see him resort to
typical 'centrist' tactics. Since he
could not quite give the 'Partisans'
a free run with the Jewish issue,
he decided to use an aspect of it
himself---the plausible sounding at-
tack on 'Zionism' as an imperialist
tool.
"However, as study of the full
text of his by now notorious
speech to the party activists of
Warsaw shows, he went beyond
the 'Zionist' aspects of the prob-
lem and raised the basic issue
of what he described as the need
on the part of Jewish citizens
for a clear self-definition (sam-
ookreslenie) of their position in
today's Poland.
"He described some Jews as be-
ing connected rationally and senti-
mentally with Israel rather than
with Poland; he promised emigra-
tion passports to those who wished
to go where their real loyalties
lay. Gomulka specifically attacked
the distinguished writer Antoni
Slonimski for clinging to 'cosmo- employed in areas where 'national
politan' attitudes, and stated rather affirmation' is necessary. Slonim-
ominously that people with such ski is a fascinating case of a life-
feelings and views should not be
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Three of Poland's leading film
directors. Aleksander Ford, Jan
Pybkowski and Jerzy Bossak were
accused April 6 of producing "bad
films and distorting reality': i n the
Polish Lawyers' Association bi-
weekly newspaper, Prawo I Zycie.
Ford was accused of undertak-
ing to produce a film based on a
text that would offer opportunities
for "hostile Zionist propaganda."
Dismissed as head of Poland's
famous film and theater school at
Lodz was Dr. Jerzy Toeplitz, a Jew,
and Dr. Roman Wajdowitz, one of
his deputies.
An Israeli army colonel with ,
an outstanding service record in
the Polish army during World
War II, was singled out for at-
tack in the Polish press as the
anti-Jewish campaign expanded
to include Polish-born Jews out-
side as well as within that coun-
try.
Col. Jacob Kaplan, former com-
mander of the Haifa area, was
described as "anti-socialist" in the
press attack, which also mentioned
two other Israeli officers of Polish
origin but did not identify by
name. Col. Kaplan holds commen-
dations from the Warsaw govern-
ment for service rendered the Po-
lish nation during World War II.
The other two officers attacked
are believed to be fictitious.
Jewish military men, along with
poets. journalists, physicians and
police officers were attacked in the
armed forces newspaper Zolnierz
Wolnosci (Soldiers of Freedom)
Tuesday, according to reports from
Warsaw. The government news-
paper Sztander Mlodych hit out at
Polish Jewish journalists in Is-
rael or in Western countries. One
of them, Alexander Klugmann,
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