Anti Jewish Demonstration ills 2 Jews in Poland
« LONDON (WNS)—The story how Polish hooligans made a pogrom on the Jews of Cracow, killing two and injuring many, was told here this week by Mark Bitter, who witnessed the riots. _
Mr. Bitter, vice-president of the Committee of the Jews in Poland, arrived this week from Poland as a delegate to the conference of the conference of the World Jewish Congress. He said the first outbreak occurred on the morning of August 11, when a rumor was spread by Polish storekeepers in the vicinity of the Diodowa synagogue that seized Polish children were being hidden in the synagogue. The rumor spread like wildfire, and before long a group of about sixty hooligans broke into the synagogue and began raining blows, with hands and other missiles, on the worshippers. The ensuing fight lasted until police arrived and chedced the riot.
were killed.
PROMISES ACTION
In the meantime, it was disclosed that the Polish Prime! Minister, Osubska-Mbrwaski, declared at n press conference in Warsaw that the Polish government is determined to end the excesses. He condemned the Cracow riots, and warned the Polish population a-gainst letting itself become influenced by reactionary propaganda.
When the police arrived the rioters diq^ersed, only to gather again in an adjacent street, where they resumed thehr attacks on Jewish pedestrians. They invaded and looted Jewish homes. Two Jews, a man and a woman, lost their lives in resisting the rioters. The police broke up the disturbance and arrested fifty of the rioters. But the rumor about the detention of Polish children in the synagogue kept on gaining in strength throughout the day, with the iiooligams inciting the - Polish population against the Jews. In the evening, when the synagogue was opened for the "mincha and maariv" services, the rioters broke into the house of worship and set it afire. One group seized a number of prayer books and burned them in a bonfire, to the delight of the growing crowd.
Following       riot, *i.dam Ost-row^i, Cracow, Grovernor, summoned the leaders of the four Po- . lish^wiitical partUs to a coi^^ ence, where tbe'seripiis natiire of the iocidjmtjra^ discussed. ^
T^e~coherence''issued a joint declaration '"condemning the outrages. Later the Polish National Council held a session, where a resolution was adopted urguig the Polish Government to make the dissemination of racial hatred a penal offense punishable by a heavy fine and prison sentence.
WOrS CONTINUE
Quotmg the Warsaw radio, a Moscow report received here disclosed that anti-Jewish riots are mounting in Poland.
The Warsaw radio is quoted as havmg said that a pogrom took place in the city of Czelads, where the only two Jews who escaped death at the hands of the Nazis
Few Children Left in Europe
• NEW YORK (WNS)-Of the tintold numbers of children who were deported to Germany from the occupied coimtries, onty "a little more than 2,0W remained to be rescued after victcry, it was disclosed here by Arthur D. Green-leigh, assistant executive head of the Joint Distribution Conunittee.
Mr. Greotilei^, who has returned from EuTOTje. where he spent a full year studsring the Jewish relief problem, said that all of the Jewish children who wo-e found in German ccmcentration camps by the British and American armies have already been removed to France, Sweden, Switzerland and England. In June and July, he said, every town in the Anglo-American zones were seardied for "stateless" Jewish children. Iliose foimd were mainly in their teens, for "no yoimg cihildren were po"-mitted to live." At BiichMiwald, a ^ committee, of adult J[;^w5,wge<J re^ ^, lief ^(yorkers soon jrfter they;arTiv- i., cd: "Take out the diildren quicklyv
They must be save<i .first"
The J.D.C, he said, has been able to repatriate about 200 youngsters, sendmg them to rejoin "relatives, but, unfortunately, not parents" in most cases. About 350 others were sent to England and Switzerland, about 1,000 to Sweden and 500 to France.
Azbout 8,000 Jewish children who were hidden in non-Jewish or institutions durmg the occupation, are being cared fo rby the J.D.C. Most of them, Mr. Green-leigh disclosed "are to all mtents and pvirposes orphans."
Hadassah President
• THk JEWISH New Year, 5706.
opens in a world once more at peace. The war, with all its horror and destruction, bloodshed, and terror, is over at last. Following the official ending of hostilities and the tunmli of victory celebrations, our first feelings of relief and thankfulness  were too deep for words, too profound to find expression in any ordinary terms. But inow we  are deeply aware  that  our  feelings must translate themselves into psractical measures. We must now turn at once to the tremendous tasks of peace. Victory alone is not peace. Hie vision of a new world with justice and freedom for all rises before us, and it is oiur task, the task of all freedom-loving people throughout the  world,  to keep that vision bright and unobscured. As we take steps to rebuild a shattered world, to bind up and heal the  wounds of these long years of slaughter, it musli be our constant-aim—our indivisable piu--pose—to build a true and lasting peace—a peace wherein all mankind can find a free and happy life because the only real peace will be that peace which means ^edcm for all human beings to live their lives without fear. Only sucU a peace will bruig healing to a war-ravaged wotrld, restore stability and re-establish faith and confidence in the future. And never was faith so greatly needed as today when we stand awed and even bewildered at the dawn of a new era—the era of atomic energy, fearsome of what this may mean to mankind.
We have indeed much to think on as we enter this new year of 5706. But this we know- The Jewish people, who fought so valiantly and suffered so bitterly in the great fight for freedom and democracy—will be in the vanguard of the builders of peace. Moxj ^ thai! 1,000,000 eJwish soldiers fou|ht m the armies of the Allied Nat^ns. But Jewish suffering goes bacll not ,six but twelve years Twdve bitter years of terror and opp^ssion at the brutal hands of the Nazis. Almost 6,000,000 Jews were wiped out during these years, the most bitter in the long history of Jewish martyrdom Some of the greatest centres of JewLsh leanung, from which for centuries past Jewry drew its strength and inspuration, have been destroyed. There remains but a pitifvilly small remnant of a once strong and virile Jewish community in Eittope. A few hundred thousand Jewish men, women and orphaned children, broken in body and spu-it. To these peace brings their one hope clo-.ser, the hope that they cherished
through all the dark days, the hope of a home, in a land of their own, in Palestine, where they nray rebuild their brocken lives Palestine, alone offers the most effective means of rehabilitation to the; survivors of the dread concentration camps.
. And the Jewi^ people, who in war, and before, long years before, stood up against the forces of tyranny and oppression, have surely won the right at long last, cf a homeland of their own, of a place among the free nations of the world. The doors of Palestine must he oj^ed to all who seek succor there and the Jewish people must take their rightful place in Pal^ine, with all free people of the world.
As- We unite in solemn prayer on this Bosh Hashonah, let us pray that this New Year 5706 will witness the establishment of a Jewish-Commonwealth in Eretz Israel, a homieland for our people, a bastion of democracy in a world of peace; ■ Anna Raginsky, President, Hada^saH Organization of Canada
	
	
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