Situation of Polish Jewry Seen Worsening !Despite Protests
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documentation center at the Me-
controlled Polish press for alleg- morial for Unknown Jewish Mar-
edly planning to slander Poland tyrs. Mrs. Olomucka, now an es-
during observances of the 25th tablished artist, made the paintings
anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto from drawings in a sketchbook
uprising. In a dispatch from New that she kept as a young girl in
York, Stanislaw Glabinski of the the Warsaw Ghetto.
official Polish Press Agency as- Poland's 'Bacchanal' Denounced
serted that the political signifi- on Floor of Brazilian Senate
cance of these ceremonies was be-
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A
ing shown by the American Jewish Brazilian senator denounced the
Committee "which does not pull Polish government's "anti-Semitic
any punches when it comes to bacchanal" and declared that Po-
slandering Poland." The Glabinski land had assumed an anti-Semitic
dispatch was widely published in policy as a means of obscuring its
Polish newspapers.
internal difficulties. The denuncia-
The PAP charged that the anni- tion was made by Senator Aron
versary celebrations in New York Steinbruch, a member of the oppo-
City on April 22 had been planned sition, speaking on t h e Senate
in advance to adopt resolutions floor. "The Polish regime is apply-
"directed against People's Poland" ing t h e same methods against
and that a New York TV docu- Jews as the Nazis did on the eve
mentary on the ghetto revolt had of World War II," he asserted. He
been deliberately changed to elimi- also protested the persecution of
ate "all fragments showing the writers and young poets in the
ssistance of Poles" to the Jews Soviet Union.
.nd that a new commentary un- Tel Aviv Warsaw Rally
friendly to Poland had been in- Attacks Polish Regime
corporated.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Thousands of
The American Jewish Commit- Israelis attended a huge rally here
tee, in a statement by executive Sunday commemorating the 25th
director Bertram Gold, retorted anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
that the organization "has never uprising at which the Polish Com-
pulled punches in the defense of munist regime was assailed for its
human rights of Jews and of all current anti-Jewish campaign.
The rally, which was called by
people nor does it pull punches
in applauding those governments the World Organization of Polish
that have extended human rights." Jews, was attended by Prime Min-
Two Jewish officials of a Lodz ister Levi Eshkol to demonstrate
textile import and export firm the government's support of Po-
have been expelled from the lish Jewry, though he d i d not
speak. The principal speaker was
Polish Communist Party in the
Minister Israel Galilee
continuing purge, the Financial Information
Times reported f r o m Warsaw who described the current cam-
Tuesday. The ousted men are paign against Polish Jewry as "a
Jozef Sandal and Natan Hedlicki. nightmare."
He denounced M. Rozcnek, the
Another Lodz victim is Prof. Polish deputy minister of culture,
Jerzy Szapiro, dismissed from the who used the occasion of the ob-
chair of neorosurgery at the Lodz servance of the ghetto revolt in
Medical School and directorship of Warsaw to accuse "Zionists" of
its clinic He was dismissed with using Nazi methods against the
the accusation that he took a posi- Arabs and to charge that world
tion "in conflict with the party Jewry had deserted Polish Jews
during the Nazi occupation. The
line."
Sovietish Heimland, Russia's Organization of Nazi Victims in
Yiddish-language monthly, marked Israel declared in a statement
the 25th anniversary of the War- issued before the rally that Rozc-
saw Ghetto uprising with poems, nek was unfit to hold his office as
memoirs and an evaluation of the secretary of t h e Polish under-
event in which some 40,000 Jewish ground fighters organization.
The Organization of Disabled
men, women and children held off
the Nazi army for a month. The Persons denounced Polish authori-
magazine published Hirsh Glick's ties for failing to invite an official
ghetto poem, "Say This Is Not the Israeli delegation to the opening
Final Road," and a chapter from of the Jewish pavilion in Ausch-
the late Prof. Ber Mark's book, witz. The statement asserted that
"The Revolt of the Ghetto of War- to open the pavilion "without
Israel's official participation and
saw."
the presence of the rem-
Sir Barnett Janner, chairman without
nants
of
the concentration camps
of the foreign affairs committee and Jewish
fighters constitutes a
of the Board of Deputies of Brit- desecration both of the memory
ish Jews, reported that the situa- of the dead and the feelings of
tion of Polish Jewry, far from those still alive."
improving, was in fact, deterior-
(It was reported from Warsaw
ating despite protests from vari- in London that the commemora-
ous parts of the world against tive ceremony at the cenotaph on
the Warsaw government's of- the site of the ghetto, which had
ficially i n s p it e d anti-Jewish been fixed for Saturday by Polish
campaign. Sir Barnett spoke at
officials, w a s postponed at the
a memorial meeting of the Board last moment and was held Sun-
of Deputies marking the 25th day. There was no official expla-
anniversary of t h e Warsaw nation but the officials allowed
Ghetto uprising. He said the
committee would consider the the state-controlled press to blame
Nahum Goldmann for protest-
question of a boycott of Polish Dr.
ing the Saturday date. The cere-
products.
mony was reported to have been
The deputies observed a minute impressive as a military parade
of silence in memory of the Euro- but, in contrast to the 20th anni-
pean Jews destroyed by the Nazis. versary, there were no foreign
The Polish government s p o n- Jewish delegations present, and
sored newspaper Sztandar Mlo- Polish Jews seemed to be isolated
dych accused Israel of treating and depressed.)
its Arab p o 1 a t i o n the way
Jews were treated by the Nazis
under Hitler, it was reported here.
The newspaper, which has been in
the forefront of Poland's officially
inspired anti Israel, anti - Jewish
campaign claimed that "Pales-
CHICAGO—The Polish National
tinian Arabs today have to wear Alliance, largest and most influen-
special badges, like the Nazis tial fraternal order of Americans
ordered the Jewish population to of Polish origin, has gone on rec-
wear in Germany."
ord as condemning anti-Semitic
acts and statements of the Polish
Exhibit of Warsaw Paintings
Communist government.
by Survivor Open in Paris
The statement, issued by the di-
PARIS (JTA)—An exhibition of
paintings of life in the Warsaw rectors of. the alliance, attacks the
Ghetto by Halina Olomucka, one anti-Semitic wave as a creature
of its few survivors, opened here of the Communist regime and says
Friday in connection with the 25th it is not representative of the sym-
anniversary of the ghetto uprising. pathies of the general Polish pop-
The exhibit is sponsored by the ulace.
Polish Americans
Condemn Warsaw
for Anti-Semitism
It called the current anti-Semi-
tism "an anti-Zionist movement
within the Communist Party of
Poland," and said it was thus
directed against the Communists
and left wingers of the Jewish
faith.
The statement called the
"anti-Zionist" actions of the Go-
mulka regime "the result of the
Communist regime's subservi-
ence to the Moscow directive or-
dering the Warsaw Communist
regime to give unqualified sup-
port to the Arab states in the
Near East crisis, contrary to the
preponderant sympathy of the
Polish people for the state of
Israel."
PNA officers appealed to ArneH-
ican journalists, commentators and
historians not to allude to Poland
as "a traditional anti-Semitic coun-
try," contending that before the
war Poland offered tolerance, pro-
tection of law and opportunities
for advancement in all professions.
Some 100,000 Jews were saved
by the Poles during World War II
"when giving aid and comfort to
the Jews meant summary execu-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
tions" by the Nazis, according to nated during World War II by
Nazi Germany."
the statement.
Trees planted along Jerusalem's
"Avenue of the Righteous"—com-
memorating those non-Jews who
OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS
aided Jews facing annihilation—
The CARIBE MOTEL
bear more plaques marked "Po-
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the statement said.
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issued on the day "when the whole
civilized world pays homage to
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