'De-Judification Latest Addition to Polish Govt. Policy
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victims on behalf of the United
States government, joining 30
groups and individuals in placing
wreaths at the memorial.
The anti-Jewish campaign in
Poland appears to be reaching the
level of a state policy which has
brought suicides and a general
purge, Flora Lewis, Newsday cor-
respondent in Paris reported from
sources she described as trust-
worthy "beyond any question."
Asserting that developments have
gone far beyond what has been
reported in the Western press, she
wrote also that the new policy,
rivaling communism as the ap-
proved ideology, included use of
a new term, "de-judification" and
included rehabilitation of at least
some elements of pre-war Polish
fascism. She also reported she had
been informed that one party of-
ficial had been expelled for "press-
ing too hard"—he had urged at a
party meeting that the remaining
Jews in Poland be herded into
ghettoes. Another party member
was expelled for quite another rea-
son, Miss Lewis reported. She had
said that it shamed her, as a Pole,
to hear another party member
remark that it was too bad Hitler
had failed to gas all the Jews.
In the latest report from War-
saw to the New York Times by
Jonathan Randal, the following de-
tails are given regarding the con-
tinuing anti-Semitic practices of
Polish Communist officials:
"In a continuation of the party
purges, three more Poles were
dismissed from the United
Workers (Communist) p a r t y in
Lodz, a textile city, and a woman
director was dismissed at a sugar
refinery at Plock, 60 miles north-
west of Warsaw.
"More than 70 Poles, many of
them Jews, have been dismissed
from the party or their jobs since
the beginning of t h e purge of
Zionists, revisionists and Stalinists,
who have been held responsible
for having instigated the student I
unrest.
"Informed sources s aid_ that
many hundreds of other Poles had
been purged without any public
mention of it.
"A rare example of resistance
by a Polish Jew to the party line
was disclosed in Sunday's issue of
Glos Olsztynski, a newspaper pub-
lished in Olsztyn, in the northeast.
"Expulsion from the party was
recommended in the case of Perla
Goldys, who was criticized for
having denied the necessity for
comrades of Jewish extraction to
make clear declarations regard-
ing their position toward the Is-
raeli aggression a g a ins t Arab
countries and the Zionist campaign
against Poland.
"Although Jewish institutions
such as the Yiddish theater and
the Cultural Association have been
asked to condemn publicly what
was termed the Zionist-led slander
campaign against Poland, the case
of Perla Goldys indicated that in-
dividual Jewish party members
were now also being pressed to do
the same thing."
An appeal to "the conscience
of the world" not "to be apa-
thetic to the conditions of Jews
in Poland and the Soviet Union"
was voiced in New York by
Benjamin A. Gebiner, national
executive secretary of the Work-
men's Circle, the world's largest
Jewish fraternal order. Gebiner
spoke at a mass rally marking
the 25th anniversary of the War-
saw Ghetto uprising sponsored
by the Workmen's Circle, the
Jewish Labor Committee and
various labor unions. He de-
nounced the reported impending
visit to the U.S. of a Jewish "re-
ligious delegation" from the So-
viet Union. He said the group is
coming to this country "to mouth
propaganda that anti-Semitism
does not exist" in Russia.
The Polish Communist regime
was accused in New York by a
former Polish diplomat of "malign-
ant fulminations against modern-
day Jews" and with "a manipula-
tion of history which would trans-
form the victims of persecution into
criminals or cowards arraigned in identify—as seeking "to use our
a kangaroo court." The charge correct political ideological fight
was made in an address to the against Zionism for various aims
Association of Polish - American
contrary to the position of the
Journalists by Dr. Joseph L. Lich-
party." His speech w a s con-
ten, who left his post in the Polish
sidered a counter-offensive by
Embassy in Washington when the Gomulka who has been facing
Communists took control in his the gravest challenge to h i s
native Poland and who is now
power since he became Poland's
director of intercultural affairs for key leader in 1956. Kepa said
t h e Anti-Defamation League of "we must undertake a sharp
Bnai Brith.
f i g h t against downright filthy
defaming- of people."
New Angles in Polish Crisis
Kepa's warning was ignored by
Seen by Gomulka Aide
Rusinek, who also charged that
LONDON (JTA)—A new internal "rich Jews in the United States
Communist party struggle in Po- and England cared more for their
land, pivoting on the month-long millions deposited in banks than
campaign to link student unrest about the fate of Jews burned in
to an alleged Zionist plot against the crematoria of Auschwitz." He
Poland, developed this week. A asserted that "there is no country
party official close to party leader in Europe that displayed so much
Wladyslaw Gomulka charged in a heroism in saving Jews as did the
speech that the anti-Zionist cam- Polish nation and there is no coun-
paign had descended to the level try that had so many victims
of "downright filthy defaming of for helping the Jews."
people."
More than a dozen Polish or-
That admission was made by ganizations and a visiting dele-
Josef Kepa, the Warsaw city secre- gation of Argentine Jews placed
tary, who stressed that Gomulka wreaths on a granite monument on
had indirectly criticized the cam- the site of the ghetto razed by
paign and declared last month that occupying Germans.
Zionism was not a threat to Po-
The newspaper Kurier Polski at-
land's Communist s y s t e m. Go-
tacked the Jewish State Theater
mulka's injunction for moderation for not denouncing the "world-
was ignored in the internal power
wide Zionist campaign slandering"
battle and, if anything, the cam- Poland. The attack followed an
paign rose in intensity. Kepa's
speech was reported by the Polish earlier pr es s campaign which
News Agency a day after it was forced the Jewish Cultural and
Political Association to take an
made, and a day later Kamimierz anti-Zionist stand. The attack on
Rusinek, secretary general of the the Yiddish theater took place
Polish Veterans Organization, com-
against a background of continu-
pared Israel's "Zionist aggression"
against the Arabs with the Nazi
slaughter of European Jews. Rusi-
nek made the charge at a cere-
mony organized by the veterans
SILVER
group to honor the month-long
CERTIFICATES
ghetto uprising in 1943.
Kepa denounced "the political
adversary"—whom he did not
ing purges of officials suspected Mieczyslas Moczar, believed to
of being "Zionists, revisionists and be the major force behind the
Stalinists" h e 1 d responsible for anti - Semitic campaign. Nearly
nearly a month of student demon-
60 Jews have been purged in
strations.
the campaign.
A Lublin newspaper reported
Jewish organizations in t h e
that five Jews had b e e n ex- United S t a t e s, particularly the
pelled from the local branch of American Jewish Committee,
the veterans organization which
came under attack in the state-
is headed by Interior Minister
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